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b'In 1884 a school master named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote the novella \\u201cFlatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions.\\u201d The book explored what it would be like to live in a two dimensional universe, and speculated that there might be other dimensions. The Abott\\u2019s story lay in obscurity until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century after Einstein wrote \\u201cThe Theory of General Relativity\\u201d which discussed the possibility of a fourth dimension. Since then several films and animations have been made based on Abbott\\u2019s novella.\\n\\nThis month\\u2019s story revisits Abbott\\u2019s flat universe from the point of view of a down and out private detective in search of his first big case.'