You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes detection investigation methods mysteries trifles
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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes detection facts characteristics detectives obviousness attributes
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés deception sherlock-holmes detection facts evidence obviousness
It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader.
Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that we are the guilty party.
Mots clés writing paradoxes detection guilt responsibility readership detective-stories
You know my methods. Apply them.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes detection investigation methods
The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English detective fiction has relied less on the beauty of the mathematical problem and much more on the intangible human element. [...] In The Moonstone the mystery is finally solved, not altogether by human ingenuity, but largely by accident. Since Collins, the best heroes of English detective fiction have been, like Sergeant Cuff, fallible.
T.S. EliotMots clés detection mysteries detectives detective-stories
Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!
Charles DickensMots clés society detection mysteries secrets secrecy detectives family-life families victorian-society gentility hidden-guilt hidden-shame
Man has created technology. Technology has created man; what we are today. Electricity is our way of life. Without it many would perish.
O.J. RendchenMots clés world people technology detection earth
The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
Arthur Conan DoyleMots clés sherlock-holmes detection trifles facts importance details crimes trivialities
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
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