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“Turnbull, whose powers of surprise were exhausted, rolled his round grey eyes and said, "Mr. Wilkinson, I think," because he could not think of…

— G.K. Chesterton

“He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards.”

— Ian Fleming

“(A murderer about their victim:) "He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed…

— P.D. James

“And the wild regrets and the bloody seats None knew so well as I For he who lives more lives than one More deaths…

— Oscar Wilde

“...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my…

— Mark Haddon

“If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity. ”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Something good had come of the accident – he had met one of his neighbours.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“He would be gone soon, and with all that had happened in Blackpool Cove, I could not afford to send a piece of my…

— Tess Oliver

“She's no-one special. England's full of wounded people. Quietly choking. Shrieking softly so the neighbours won't hear. You must have seen them. You've probably…

— Helen Zahavi

“Bailey’s eyes rolled upward. “The man ran a merry-go-round in a backwater town. Get over it.”

— Shelley Noble

“Because my name is Samuel Clearwater, and I take orders from no one. Not even death.”

— T.M. Frazier

“He knew it was there, that opiate of the Anglos. And his hand clutched the box just as the kettle whistled. Violent death demanded…

— Louise Penny