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Franks to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

clear winter night; stars twinkled brightly in the sky above.

The trees below bore white sleeves like strange, ghostly figures frozen to the spot in the icy landscape. It was the kind of night – for anyone with an ounce of sense – to stay indoors beside a roaring fire, though some did not take heed…

A young girl walked

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

—Aristotle: Politics

You don’t stop loving people because aren’t nice and you can’t stop loyalty if it happens to be in your blood.

don’t stop loving people because aren’t nice and you can’t stop loyalty if it happens to be in your blood.

Perhaps rather than being objectionably presumptuous, Sherlock on at least many occasions struck the right balance between intellectual cowardice on the one side and rashness on the other.

Indeed, Watson would later claim to be “repelled by the egotism” of Sherlock's insistence that Watson's chronicles should focus more on the logic than the story.

should focus more on the logic than the story.

“Crime is common. Logic is rare,”