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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol 2 Quotes: I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.
         

I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.


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