The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.