Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well as it’s conventions. He doubted whether Macklefield [the murder victim’s Will...

The victims of homicide are the only ones who carry the true secrets of humanity to the grave. The ones only God knows

And those who will carefully study the so-called ‘Mosaic code’ contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that, though Jahveh’s prohibitions of certain forms of immorality are strict and sweeping, his...

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or...

We’re in the beginning stages of the investigation. We’re looking for a motive or if this is even a homicide. We’re looking at it as a suspicious situation because of the way the body was...

I’m going to eat your fucking eyeballs and wear your faces when I’m done with you!

She had signed her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was...

In my opinion, the manner of death in Mrs. Ratliff’s case was homicide.

Mr. Lecky had proceeded quickly for several moments before he drew up, shocked. A few more steps and he might have stumbled on his idiot, for the stairs he had been approaching were the front...