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“If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.”
A collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories. These are so witty and irreverent and clever! I especially appreciate how Dr Watson feels so real, as if he really is a person writing about a friend. ...more
I read some of these stories as a small child, in a pocket Penguin classic version that cost $1.50 or $2. I remember a couple of them very vividly - particularly the one about the speckled band and the one about the lady in the electric blue dress and her coil of chestnut brown hair. These two filled me with horror, and in retrospect, I now realise why - it is because they are stories about single women put in very difficult circumstances (usually involving isolation).
This time round, I found Ho ...more
This time round, I found Ho ...more
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