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This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)



[T]hings which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure have served to enlighten me and to strengthen my conclusions.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)



You remind me of Edgar Allen Poe’s Dupin.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)