In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: success sherlock-holmes failure
It's barely changed since the faceless colour committee originally selected it in 1908 when the first map of the Underground was designed and the Bakerloo conclusively became brown, a very early twentieth-century brown, which brings something of the nineteenth century with it - the colour of Sherlock Holmes's pipe, a Gladstone bag, a grandfather clock.
Paul MorleyStichwörter: sherlock-holmes brown bakerloo gladstone-bag london-underground
It's elementary, my dear Winifred.
Miss MaeStichwörter: sherlock-holmes mystery games castle london victorian spiders
I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .
Anthony HorowitzStichwörter: sherlock-holmes dr-watson the-house-of-silk
Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within me, and calls insistently for a well-staged performance. Surely our profession, Mr. Mac, would be a drab and sordid one if we did not sometimes set the scene so as to glorify our results. The blunt accusation, the brutal tap upon the shoulder - what can one make of such a denouement? But the quick inference, the subtle trap, the clever forecast of coming events, the triumphant vindication of bold theories - are these not the pride and the justification of our life's work? At the present moment you thrill with the glamour of the situation and the anticipation of the hunt. Where would be that thrill if I had been as definite as a timetable?
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: style sherlock-holmes dramatist inference denouement the-subtle-trap thrill-of-the-hunt
How long is this to last?" asked the inspector finally. "And what is it we are watching for?"
"I have no more notion than you how long it is to last," Holmes answered with some asperity. "If criminals would always schedule their movements like railway trains, it would certainly be more convenient for all of us.
Stichwörter: sherlock-holmes criminals asperity inspector-alec-macdonald railway-trains
I really don’t know what to think, Mr Holmes,’ Lestrade muttered. ‘Well, that’s nothing new.
Anthony HorowitzStichwörter: humor sherlock-holmes dry-humor lestrade
My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: life sherlock-holmes romance boredom commonplace engine audacity criminals sterile
One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: imagination sherlock-holmes characters arthur-conan-doyle fictional-characters literary-fiction
My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.
Arthur Conan DoyleStichwörter: sherlock-holmes moriarty
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