Arthur Conan Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Characters: Sherlock Holmes
Sir Henry Baskerville gets a mysterious letter: “As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor”. The word “moor” only was printed in ink.
“Nail scissors,” said Holmes. “you can see that it was a very short bladed scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over ‘keep away’. “…the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.”
“Now, you would call it a guess, no doubt, but I am almost certain that this address has been written in an hotel.”

Characters: Doctor John Watson
"If my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place. No one can say so more confidently than I."

Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson
“I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance”
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