I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.

Laurie R. King

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I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.

Jodi Picoult

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I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

Sue Monk Kidd

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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Jacobus Johannes Leeuw

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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

Agatha Christie

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Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

Agatha Christie

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In fact-Dr. Sheppard!

Agatha Christie

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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

Thomas Moore

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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

G.K. Chesterton

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But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean

Jeff Mariotte

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