How to Unleash a Thousand to One?

Sherlock holmes is a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. Here in london, we have lots of government detectives and lots of private ones. Whend these fellows are at fault, they come to me, and i manage to put them on the right scent. There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds. And if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand. I should like to see him clapped down in a third class carriage on the underground and ask to give the trades of all his fellow travellers. You would lose your money. It is not practical.