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.
Tag: sherlock-holmes criminals asperity inspector-alec-macdonald railway-trains
I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: inspiration business detective-novels chaps inspector-alec-mandonald
There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.
Arthur Conan DoyleEverything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
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My job is to know what other people do not know.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: life people lifestyle job known
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 DoyleTag: life sherlock-holmes romance boredom commonplace engine audacity criminals sterile
You're too late. She's my wife."
"No, she's your widow."
His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley's waistcoat. He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.
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My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes moriarty
If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.
Arthur Conan DoyleNulla è piccolo per una grande mente", sentenziò Holmes.
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