The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

You seem most fortunate in having an employé who comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience among employers in this age.

“As a rule,” said Holmes, “the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.