"Do you know, Watson, said he, that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."
Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician best known for creating Sherlock Holmes. He was born in Edinburgh on 1859-05-22 and became one of the most influential crime-fiction authors in English literature. He died in Crowborough, England, on 1930-07-07.