The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.
Steel True, Blade Straight.
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.