The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

His crimes were listed by alphabetical progression that was obviously important to him. On the other hand, he had no particular taste in victims Mrs. Ascher, Betty Barnard, Sir Carmichael Clarke, they all differed widely from each other. There was no sex complex no particular age complex, and that seemed to me to be a very curious fact. If a man kills indiscriminately it is usually because he removes anyone who stands in his way or annoys him. But the alphabetical progression showed that such was not the case here. The other type of killer usually selects a particular type of victim nearly always of the opposite sex. There was something haphazard about the procedure of A.B.C. that seemed to me to be at war with the alphabetical selection." "The slight inferences I permitted myself to make (небольшие выводы я позволил себе сделать; to infer заключать; делать /логический/ вывод). The choice of the A.B.C. suggested to me (выбор Эй-би-си предложил мне /то/) what I may call a railway-minded man (что я могу назвать железнодорожно ориентированным человеком) ...»