The creator of Sherlock Holmes was out-deduced by a Paris cab driver!

>One day [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Arthur_Conany_Doyle_by_Walter_Benington%2C_1914.png) arrived in Paris and asked a cab driver to take him to a certain hotel. The cab driver, recognizing his passenger as the famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, said, “I perceive, sir, that you have recently visited Constantinople and there are strong indications you have been in the neighborhood of Milan. I further deduce that you have recently been in Budapest.” >”Wonderful! Very clever! I’ll give you five francs extra if you tell me how you arrived at so accurate a conclusion,” said the great author of detective fiction. >”It was easy,” said the cab driver proudly, “I simply looked at the labels on your luggage.” ______________________________________ **Source:** Humes, James C. *Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous*. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. 143. Print. ______________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle) [Sherlock Holmes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes) [Κωνσταντινούπολις / Constantinopolis / قسطنطینية (Constantinople)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople) [Milano (Milan)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan) [Budapest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest)