“Actually, Diana, I was kind of hoping it would be murder. I mean only murder. Without the horrible preliminaries.”
Ruth Ledgerwood, Death by Logic.
“We listened closely—almost desperately—to our visitors’ footsteps moving up the stairs.”
Georgina Hickes, An Ornamental Murder.
All buildings have a history. That much is obvious. But a room—any room—also has a history.
Lincoln Collings, The Past Regarded As a Small Bowl.
Lack of principles. Flexible principles. Which is worse?
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
“…but your rationalizations are entertaining, Annie. Quite so.”
Jonathan Steed, Down Under.
“By thunder, Elizabeth! Do keep that beast away from me.”
Trevor Walpole, The Imperfect Stranger. (1784)
“No, Sergeant! I would never murder my husband for a little thing like money.”
Allison Cowling, Night of the Detective.
“I know when I am being lied to, Mr. Ludwig. And I am not obligated to determine a motive for those lies.”
Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.
He called himself Miles Mander, but his real name was Nolan Babuska. Close friends called him Moose Babuska. Or some people later claimed to have called him that.
Clive Ennis, The Case of the Broken Handle.
“And what, you may ask, is science? It is stuff done by people who hold science degrees!”
Diana Moone, Living Well.
