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Quotation from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
“If there is such a thing known at the doctor’s shop as a _detective-fever_, that disease had now got fast hold of your humble servant.”
The Moonstone, First Period, Chapter XV (Project Gutenberg #155)
Following Cuff to the Shivering Sand, Betteredge confesses that the excitement of the inquiry has caught him in spite of himself.
Citation: "If there is such a thing known at the doctor’s shop as a _detective-fever_, that disease had now got fast hold of your humble servant." — Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, First Period, Chapter XV (Project Gutenberg #155). (id the-moonstone-q4)
Portrait: (William) Wilkie Collins by Rudolph Lehmann, Rudolf Lehmann, Public domain.
