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'''Knox's Decalogue''' is series of rules codified in Ronald Knox's 1929 essay [http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/commandments.htm The Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction]. In ''Umineko no Naku Koro ni''{{umineko}}, the Decalogue is used as a tool and weapon for solving murder mysteries. The Decalogue is predominantly used by [[Dlanor A. Knox]].
 
== The Umineko Decalogue ==
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It is forbidden for unknown drugs or hard to understand scientific devices to be used.
=== Knox's Fifth ===
''(not included)''
=== Knox's Sixth ===
It is forbidden for accident or intuition to be employed as a detective technique.
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== Trivia ==
*Knox's Fifth is omitted from the ''Umineko'' version of the Decalogue. In the original text, Knox's Fifth is "No Chinaman must figure in the story," a rule responding to the then-contemporary trend of using foreign characters as villains.
 
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