“As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a sing…” — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.