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

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.