“Why do people still read Sherlock Holmes in an age of DNA testing and electron microscopes? It’s elementary. Holmes has a timeless intelligence that puts him head, shoulders and deer-stalker above all other detectives.”
Alexander McCall Smith
‘[Arthur Conan Doyle] is unique in simultaneously bringing down the curtain on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of writing that, while imitated and expanded, has never been surpassed…Personally, I would walk a mile in tight boots to read his letters to the milkman.’
Stephen Fry
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