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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
Crime Writer
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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