“Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.”

British physician and author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Doyle is best known for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes. His stories and novels, blending logic and observation, remain foundational to detective fiction and popular culture.