“Murders in real life are not solved by one man, genius or not, working alone.”
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“In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.”
“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.”
“Excitement is simple. It should be just described without any wrapping up in metaphor and similies. These are reflections, reflections of the mind of the person to whom they occur. But action is when there is no time to reflect. All it wants is a subject, a verb, an object, and possibly some rhythm in the prose.”
“A story hasn’t room for more than a limited number of created characters.”
“Any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms, just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible.”
“The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small sailing dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast.”
“To commit murder you need four aces, Spades (the oppertunity), Hearts (a motive), Diamonds (the capability of killing), and Clubs (the capability of commiting this particular crime).”
