That’s even older than my parents!

I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.Lord help me.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

Strike teringat kata Adler, “Kebohongan tidak akan masuk akal, kecuali kebenaran mengandung bahaya yang setara.

But the rest of us aren’t like that, Nick. I only have the one liver, and I need it, thank you very much.” Elphaba’s diaphragm rapidly rose and fell.

Ah ha!’ the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. ”The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

It was quite elementary,’ returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever… That means-that there is no more death…

business.

Thanks to Dashiell Hammett. “He was thin, walked with a stick, and was the only private dick I knew who used the pockets of his sport coat. Maybe that means something, maybe not.” Ramone Ramone,...

Lyches are monsters.

You’ll be in good hands with the colonel, you’ll see.”The colonel? Okay, I was obviously stuck in a Gone With the Wind theme park. Or maybe a Kentucky Fried Chicken farm.Or I was simply hallucinating…

Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn’t Lasker. This guy-‘She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say...

“One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams.” Mother to Sherlock,...

I haven’t a clue,” Nick laughed.

Don’t wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you’re gonna have to run.

You just couldn’t give it a rest, could you, Sue? Had to keep badgering me. Snooping and poking around. I hope you’re satisfied, now that you’ve ripped my guts out.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,’ Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to ,then you’re probably in the wrong lane.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

when you live outside the law, you have to be flexible

Damn. Mulciber! Mulciber! Mulciber!” Suddenly a large ball of fire erupted from the end of the beer mug, nearly singed Stanley’s eyebrows, and flew up into the sky in a large, fiery arc, eventually plunging...

Tell me, Mrs. Moon, will your need for sustenance trouble you on this excursion? How often do you need to feed?” I couldn’t tell whether his interest was scientific, or whether he was afraid I...

Investigation was like a series of job interviews. Getting the door slammed in your face at every attempt wasn’t the exciting life of the detective portrayed on film or television.

Al… You ever kill anybody? In the United States? Because I know you mean it and everything, but I know these guys better than I know you. They’re soldiers, that’s all. No questions, no time...

Did I hurt it?” But she didn’t need an answer, as it pulled itself up from the snow and brushed itself off.

A Dick and Jane story written in blood and battered bone.See Spot.See Spot run.See Spot run from a gaping chest wound.Run Spot run.See Detective smear Spot into a baggy for DNA testing.

It was always the same for her when she arrived to meet the body. After she unbuckled her seat belt, after she pulled a stick pen from the rubber band on the sun visor, after...

It’s been a while since I’ve had sex. I figured it was just like riding a bike, the only difference is that after a while, the bike doesn’t turn you over and ride you.

All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil,we cannot get the clue by searching for,we have to search for the veil instead.

The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative,’he said as Molly came out in a fluster

you were attacked by cement monkeys?

That’s the last thing we need. Zombys in a Vampyre story. Twilight of the Living Dead. Ugh!

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned.”Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I’d say those words with a straight face…

Val had a horrific image of Lisa peering through a magnifying glass like a grotesquely teenybopper version of Nancy Drew — in jeggings.

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

Even though I began my career as an alchemist, I soon turned away from that practice and forged my own path. I uncovered my own secrets and kept them secret. That’s how I was able...

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.

It’s ‘Never forget who you work for.'” And as she voiced the words, Nikki felt a creeping unease. It wasn’t exactly shame, but it was close. For the first time it sounded hollow. Fake. Why?...

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work, stopped writing for a period of years. When he came back...

She had an ass that could make any man sin.”~ Gunner Wilson

Generally he knew by instinct the likely length of an investigation, but on this occasion he did not: as he fought to get his breath he suddenly saw himself as others must see him, and...

The only reason you need me at all, John, is because Magick actually works. If it were all just smoke and mirrors and stage magic, if the world worked the way religion or science says...

The light clicks on, right above my head, drawing my eyes to it. The moment I look up, squinting, I know I’m in trouble. There isn’t even a guy leaning against the corner, trying to...

Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with ‘Are you stupid?’ and the conversation would still make sense.

Nick wouldn’t dream of going on a case without his beloved cat. After all, they had been together for over three hundred years.

about Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.

In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.