Arthur Conan Doyle. The Motley Ribbon
Looking through my notes about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes — and I have more than seventy such records that I have kept over the past eight years — I find many tragic cases in them, some of them are funny, some are bizarre, but there is not a single ordinary one: working out of love for my art, and not for the sake of money, Holmes never took up the investigation of ordinary, everyday cases, he was always attracted only by such cases in which there is something extraordinary, and someti...
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Motley Ribbon
Looking through my notes about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes — and I have more than seventy such records that I have kept over the past eight years — I find many tragic cases in them, some of them are funny, some are bizarre, but there is not a single ordinary one: working out of love for my art, and not for the sake of money, Holmes never took up the investigation of ordinary, everyday cases, he was always attracted only by such cases in which there is something extraordinary, and someti...
