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Quotation from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
“There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”
A Study in Scarlet, Part I, Ch. 4 (Project Gutenberg #244)
Holmes explains the title of the case to Watson, giving the book its name.
Citation: "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." — Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part I, Ch. 4 (Project Gutenberg #244). (id a-study-in-scarlet-q2)
