You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County would love to be able to tell you this is so. But no, like their granddaddy, the Wallace men were thievin’ crooks, always with a scheme ready to separate the weak from their hard-earned money.
Gwenn WrightTags: murder college mystery suspense young-adult thriller ya southern-lit ozarks
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.
Deanna RaybournTags: marriage mystery husband wife intrigue partnership nicholas-brisbane
As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.
Alan BradleyNot to be too dramatic about it, that night I slept the sleep of the damned. I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tine aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun.
Alan BradleyTags: dramatic dream mystery drama damned flavia
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.
NisiOisiNI looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before the crime and a beautiful set of marks which could only have come there between two and three in the morning, but this being real life in a London November, you might as well expect footprints in Niagara. I searched the roofs right along—and came to the jolly conclusion that any person in any blessed flat in the blessed row might have done it.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: real-life novels mystery
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
Bram StokerQ: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.
Tags: love questions peace silence communication night introspection quiet mystery answers question answer lovers aloneness communion enigma
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".
Yohji YamamotoTags: fashion mystery neutrality color-black
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred HitchcockTags: mystery god-s-will
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