[PW] ? flee at once ...

[Callum]

I believe QI said that it was Arthur Conan Doyle, and who am I to argue with Stephen Fry.

It was discussed on Snopes, where one lady gives about half a dozen sources from the late 19th century, and though ACD is among them none seem definitive.


  Callum


>The story that someone once sent a telegram to some friends saying "all is 
>discovered, flee at once," and one or more of them left town is often 
>attributed to Mark Twain, and sometimes to Arthur Conan Doyle or G. K. 
>Chesterton . . . can anyone provide a source citation that would make this 
>more than apocryphal?
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