It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]