Sublime

“the very horror of my situation lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and

If he were to listen to Holmes for more than clues as to a suspect’s identity or a case’s line of inquiry, he would find that he might have less need of turning to him in the future. For, if imagination does not enter into the picture—and do so before any deduction takes place—all of those observations, all of that understanding of the prior chapte

Moriarty, Sherlock evokes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories' compelling fictions about social order and invites a kind of Victorian nostalgia.

“No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove.

a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

“Whoever hired that bloke to kill us,” Wayne said, “will be expecting that explosion to mean we’ve gone to meet Ironeyes.”

"The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine-bottle."