The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.