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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.


Jeffery Deaver

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- Sherlock Holmes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.
DAVID GRANN It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you s...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To begin at the beginning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ...I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was e...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Watson: "You may be right."

Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I have taken to living by my wits.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more ...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certa...
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JAMES DUNBAR Well, Watson.'
'Yes, Holmes?
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M. J. ROSE There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
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GRIGORI CHKHARTISHVILI I want to be this generation's Sherlock Holmes. That is, the man to solve first world problems.
J.R. RIM How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, howe...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE . . . and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that th...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The game is afoot.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his fo...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?"
"Yes, he did."
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes."
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am lost without my Boswell.

[Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a ha...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--"
"Indeed, sir! May ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fas...
DEYTH BANGER In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking fo...
C.S. LEWIS It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A clien...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I did read Sherlock Holmes as a boy but I never thought for a moment that I'd ever write about Doyle...
JULIAN BARNES Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
"That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly....
EOIN COLFER More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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LAURIE R. KING I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a ve...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastat...
PAUL AUSTER É arriscado especular antes de ter dados na mão...inconscientemente começa-se a torcer os factos ...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE We weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn't...
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PETER JACKSON Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however imp...
CONAN DOYLE I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreci...
JESSICA MARIA TUCCELLI Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebe...
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