Have you read Gaboriau’s works?” I asked.“Does Lecoq come up to your idea of a detective?”Sherlock Holmes sniffed sardonically. “Lecoqwas a miserable bungler,” he said, in an angryvoice; “he had only one thing to recommend him, and that was his energy. That book made me positively ill. The question was how to identify an unknown prisoner. I could have done it in twenty four hours. Lecoq took six months or so. It might be made a text-book for detectives to teach them what to avoid.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
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