A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"You remind me of Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories."

"Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial.

I felt rather indignant at having two characters whom I had admired treated in this cavalier style.

"This fellow may be very clever," I said to myself, "but he is certainly very conceited."

"Wonderful!" I ejaculated. "Commonplace," said Holmes, though I thought from his expression that he was pleased at my evident surprise and admiration.

"Come along, Doctor,"

I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.

a study in scarlet, eh?

"The plot thickens,"