Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

We're on a mission from Glod.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.