Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

Books are a habit-forming drug.