| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17671 |
| QUOTATION: | “Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,” answered Holmes thoughtfully. “It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), British author. Sherlock Holmes, in “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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