January 6, 2006
Discovering Sherlock Holmes in Weekly Installments, Just as It Was Intended
SERIAL CRIMES: "To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. ... It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen. ..."
Those lines open Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia." When readers of The Strand picked up the July 1891 issue of the magazine in
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