The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.