"What one man can invent, another can discover."
"Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell."
"When the impossible has been eliminated the residuum, however improbable, must contain the truth."
“You see, but you do not observe . The distinction is clear.”
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hyst…
Poor Mr. Putter has caught a cold and is feeling miserable. Luckily, Mrs. Teaberry and her dog, Zeke, know just what to do to help Mr. Putter feel better.
'About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe'. A dense yellow fog descends upon London. Tricksters, thieves and murderers stalk their prey undetected. Lawlessness abounds but it is no match for the penetrating mind of Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the strangest of cases. A woman receiv…
‘Tell me, Watson, do you get a creeping feeling when you watch the snakes in the zoo? That’s how I feel when I see Milverton. I’ve met more than fifty murderers in my life, but he is worse than all of them.’ In an attempt to save a woman’s marriage, Holmes is forced to come face-to-face with one of his worst enemies: Charles Augustus Milverton. This abominable villain is holding ho…