Raymond Chandler - Quotes

 I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights. 

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Mark Haddon - Quotes

 And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. 

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Agatha Christie - Quotes

 You've a pretty good nerve, 

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Agatha Christie - Quotes

 At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled. 

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Nadine - Quotes

 Tja, fisch du bist halt schlau ;) 

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Agatha Christie - Quotes

 It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again. 

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Lee Goldberg - Quotes

 It's a tough job being somebody's personal assistant. You have to anwser their phone, manage their correspondence, run their errands, pay their bills, arrange their schedule, and basically do whatever tasks, menial to major, they are too busy or self absorbed or distranted or pampered or disinterested to do themselves. 

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Arthur Conan Doyle - Quotes

 The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. 

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Raymond Chandler - Quotes

 Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. 

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Douglas Adams - Quotes

 She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself. Now there was an idea. 

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Raymond Chandler - Quotes

 You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. 

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Douglas Adams - Quotes

 The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. 

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Dean Koontz - Quotes

 Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along. 

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Agatha Christie - Quotes

 I am all that there is of the most real. 

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Cornelia Funke - Quotes

 They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all. 

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Michael Chabon - Quotes

 Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-'



She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks. 

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