The Quotable Holmes Courtesy of American Digest @ www.americandigest.org
Truth, Encore “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” -- THE SIGN OF FOUR
What We Can See from Maps “Exactly. I fancy the yew alley, though not marked under that name, must stretch along this line, with the moor, as you perceive, upon the right of it. This small clump of buildings here is the hamlet of Grimpen, where our friend Dr. Mortimer has his headquarters. Within a radius of five miles there are, as you see, only a very few scattered dwellings. Here is Lafter Hall, which was mentioned in the narrative. There is a house indicated here which may be the residence of the naturalist- Stapleton, if I remember right, was his name. Here are two moorland farmhouses, High Tor and Foulmire. Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown. Between and around these scattered points extends the desolate, lifeless moor. This, then, is the stage upon which tragedy has been played, and upon which we may help to play it again.” -- THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Where to Look “You did not know where to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hand from a boot-lace.” -- A CASE OF IDENTITY
Gerard Van der Leun
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