There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.
Mark HelprinMots clés justice philosophical mystery
The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back into displace as the breeze fluttered by. In the firelight, it was golden like the dandelions of which she’d spoken. The ones that had grown along the Franklin riverbank in late summer. The ones he had lost any faith in since he’d committed his first murder there.
V.S. CarnesMots clés love murder romance mystery dandelions
A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 1)
"Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you've been asked to investigate, Mrs Hetherington?"
"Remember your private detective wants to be able to sleep soundly at night and in their own bed, not one supplied as her Majesty's pleasure."
"It seems to be an open and shut case doesn't it? But it's not you know? How do you know if anything is what it seems?"
"But where is Cheung kin?"
"When I first set eyes on your father, he was spying on a man from between two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica."
"I don't think I need say more." "On the contrary, if you want me to have any idea what you're talking about, I think you do."
"Why don't you report it to the police?" "Because I stole it in the first place didn't I?"
"It's something of a mystery, I admit."
"Vanished into thin air!"
"You sound so sensible Mrs Hetherington. Please help us get to the bottom of this."
Ah, thought Jane – the old story.
"No body was found?"
"Shall I put the kettle on?" "Only if you fill it with whiskey."
"The course of true love didn't run smoothly for me either, you know."
"Life has its tragedies for sure."
"… What do I want? I want money that's what I want. I want money."
She was even more horrified by the words she heard next.
Callum MacCallum knew what it was like to be an outsider.
Mots clés mystery crime suspense british female-private-detective whodunnit
There are two rules for sucess:
1. Never tell everything you know.
Mots clés humor rules mystery roger-h-lincoln sucess
(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?
E.A. BucchianeriMots clés humor money art funny mystery george-washington sarcastic-quotes sad-but-true presidents portrait da-vinci masterpiece gadfly artwork mona-lisa ugly-art
It’s the unknown that draws people.
E.A. BucchianeriMots clés people adventure mysteries mystery discovery unknown attraction fascination mysterious adventures magnetism love-of-the-unknown
Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.
Dean KoontzMots clés adventure mystery terror too-much
Her killer wrote a note on that stationary."
"A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?
Mots clés humor mystery in-death-series
Por que en las epocas oscuras
se escribe con tinta invisible?
Why in the darkest ages
do they write with invisible ink?
Mots clés mystery
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie
John Charles HarmanMots clés love mystery crime romance-novels
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