The Devil & Sherlock Holmes Quotes

“The course of human events is not permanently altered by the great deeds of history, nor by the great men but by the small daily doings of the little men.”
― David Grann, The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

“As Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, “If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
― David Grann, The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

“Once, when he couldn’t find his limousine upon leaving a ballpark, he was heard saying, “Rickey don’t like it when Rickey can’t find Rickey’s limo.”
― David Grann, The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

“Rickey don’t like it when Rickey can’t find Rickey’s limo.”
― David Grann, The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

“Edgar Allan Poe’s Inspector Auguste Dupin—”
― David Grann, The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

“took”
― David Grann, The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

“Washington Bridge. The components were then lowered into the Thirtieth Street hole by a special crane that could withstand”
― David Grann, The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

“bathysphere,”
― David Grann, The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession