Excellent Quotes: The Sign of the Four

Sherlock Holmes time, peeps! Sooo many great quotes to choose from. Well, woefully, sometimes you gotta just bite the bullet and go for a classic. After deducing that Dr. Watson has just been to the post office to send a telegram, the celebrated detective reveals his deductive method to his amazed companion:

“Why, of course I knew that you had not written a letter, since I sat opposite to you all the morning. I see also in your open desk there that you have a sheet of stamps and a thick bundle of post-cards. What could you go to the post office for, then, but to send a wire? Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.”
--Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Sign of the Four. New York: Book-of-the-Month Club. 1994. Pp. 5-6.

PS - The Sign of the Four is the tale in which Watson scores the babilicous Mary Morstan and subsequently gives up his bachelor ways for domestic bliss--something Holmes never considered, even for “the woman.” Oh, and “Stupid Mouth Shut” by Hem is simultaneously perky and gorgeous; now playing on iTunes.