The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain
A comic, satirical tale in which a highly valued white elephant goes missing and a procession of officious investigators, bungling detectives, and absurd official inquiries trail a series of half-baked clues; the narrative lampoons bureaucratic pomp and the conventions of detective stories, piling up increasingly ridiculous misdirections and anticlimactic resolutions to highlight human folly and the gap between grand importance and trivial reality.
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