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US Version of Modern Sherlock
"There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear"
— The cardboard box (Sherlock Holmes)
"ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so."
— Sherlock Holmes
To him she will always remain, the woman…
Irene Adler Screenshot
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
"If it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you”."
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. - Dr Watson
