“I am reminded of the case of Red Tolliver of Northumberland. A heartless swindler. Though clever. Quite clever. And that of the Tandy brothers. Murderers they were. That would be around 1887. No, it was 1889. And a cold winter it was, sir. And some mention should be made of the mystery of the Captain’s Grove.”
Doyle Tatum, The Holmesian Way.
“Fire her? No, old boy, you do not fire her. You grab her by the left ear and fling!”
Roone Giddings, An Arrangement of Particles.
“Good grief, Caroline, why be restrained when you could be pursuing selfhood?”
Diana Moone, Living Well.
“Please be more interesting,” implored Mr. Hodges. “People come on!”
Douglas Cristobal, Feel the Logic.
Again and again they mistakenly assume that the train has brakes.
Tyrone Sommer, Circling the Drain.
Jeremy felt that, in all fairness, God owed both Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. And he, Jeremy, intended to let the world hear all about it.
Dell Arbogast, The Null Hypothesis and Other Stories.
“My wants are few and simple,” said Watson.
Doyle Tatum, The Holmesian Way.
“At least he had the common decency to use a ball peen hammer instead of a claw hammer,” declared Rawlings. “The latter would have been unseemly.”
Kiefer Sythe, The Detective Club.
Trivializing is so commonplace in the internet era that we tend to forget how devastating it can be.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
The media exist to tell us who is sensitive and who isn’t, who cares and who doesn’t, and who is good and who is not. Our job is to believe all of it.
Christopher Allyn, Militant Vulgarity.
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