The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.