When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

The fair sex is your department.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.