Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

Enemies are an indication of character.

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.

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!