McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

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.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.