Funny the things you find around the house on a quiet Saturday night. I just picked up a 1984 omnibus of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes complete stories. Wonderful naturally. But the introduction was written by someone I'd never heard of, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morley" target="_blank">Christopher Morley</a>. He described waiting for Conan Doyle's stories in Baltimore as they appeared back in the early 20th century and manages, in his intro, to mark down many of the reasons I love these stories too but could never quite put into words.

Who? An American 'journalist, essayist novelist and poet.'

Great introduction and I'm even more impressed by his last message to his friends....
<blockquote>Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.</blockquote>
Here, here.