"Elementary, my dear Watson."
— Sherlock Holmes
January 1, 1970
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In the stories by Conan Doyle, Holmes often remarked that his logical conclusions were "elementary", in that he considered them to be simple and obvious. However, the complete phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" does not appear in any of the 60 Holmes stories written by Doyle. The beginning of The Crooked Man (1893) is the closest that "Elementary" and "my dear Watson" ever appear in the text, but the two phrases are separated by a paragraph—and are in the wrong order. It does later appear in ch
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In the stories by Conan Doyle, Holmes often remarked that his logical conclusions were "elementary", in that he considered them to be simple and obvious. However, the complete phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" does not appear in any of the 60 Holmes stories written by Doyle. The beginning of The Crooked Man (1893) is the closest that "Elementary" and "my dear Watson" ever appear in the text, but the two phrases are separated by a paragraph—and are in the wrong order. It does later appear in ch