To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.
The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.