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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Track, Literature, Crime
Oldiees Publishing, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, E. W. Hornung (2014). “50 Crime Short Stories - THE BEST SHORT WORKS COLLECTION”, p.441, Oldiees Publishing

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime, Bigger, Obvious
E. W. Hornung, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Kendrick Bangs (2016). “COLLECTOR’S EDITION – COMPLETE RAFFLES SERIES & SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES: 60+ Novels & Stories in One Volume (Mystery & Crime Classics): Including The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask, A Thief in the Night, Mr. Justice Raffles, Mrs. Raffles, R. Holmes & Co., and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.823, e-artnow

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Home, Crime, Difficult
"The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891)

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime, Professors, Mathematical
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "The Final Problem"

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Common, Logic, Crime
1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Copper Beeches'.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Actors, Crime, Lost
Arthur Conan Doyle (2005). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Slipcased Edition)”, p.570, W. W. Norton & Company

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