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“have long held that the meanest rookeries in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the glorious countryside.”
― Thomas Burns, Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson: A Peek into Watson's Dispatch Box: Nine New Tales of Mystery & Suspense from the Author of Ten Steps from Baker Street

“The London criminal is a practical fellow,’ said Holmes. ‘It makes no sense to steal from the poor.”
― Thomas Burns, Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson: A Peek into Watson's Dispatch Box: Nine New Tales of Mystery & Suspense from the Author of Ten Steps from Baker Street