It Is Quite A Three-pipe Problem.

No Man Lives Or Has Ever Lived Who Has Brought The Same Amount Of Study And Of Natural Talent To The Detection Of Crime Which I Have Done.

My Business Is That Of Every Other Good Citizen - To Uphold The Law.

The Most Difficult Crime To Track Is The One Which Is Purposeless.

It Has Always Seemed To Me That So Long As You Produce Your Dramatic Effect, Accuracy Of Detail Matters Little. I Have Never Striven For It And I Have Made Some Bad Mistakes In Consequence. What Matter If I Hold My Readers?

It Is, Of Course, A Trifle, But There Is Nothing So Important As Trifles.