How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

London, noisy, noisome, nattering London: aged, ageless, dignified, eccentric in her ways – seat of empire, capital of all the world; that indomitable grey lady of drab aspect but sparkling personality – was at her...

Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but you do not listen. For a literary man, Watson – and...