“To its left stood a transistor radio, which was emitting and indeed had been emitting for some considerable time, a symphonic movement of vaguely romantic cast; from the movement’s excessive length, vacuity and derivativeness, Fen judged it to be by… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“To its left stood a transistor radio, which was emitting and indeed had been emitting for some considerable time, a symphonic movement of vaguely… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“Discretion,” said Fen with great complacency, “is my middle name.” “I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.” — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“Indeed,' he said, tapping his fingers very rapidly on the desk. 'Indeed. I'm very pleased to know you, sir. Do me the honour of… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“Down the Woodstock Road towards them an elderly, abnormally thin man was pedalling, his thin white hair streaming in the wind and sheer desperation… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“The Misses Bale don’t like it a bit, but I say to them, “Titty,” I say -or as it may be, “Tatty” – their… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“Well, my dear fellow, if you say so. But who is the Botticelli murderer?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘But you must know by now, my… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.” — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
“He dredged in a pocket, producing from it a box of non-ethical, and indeed totally inefficacious, tranquillizers, such as could be bought without a… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
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