Crime Quote by Derek Raymond

“This is not what I had in mind," she muttered to Bill,who was hovering,always,on the rim of the cupboard next to her washtub. She…

— Lauren Kate

“He was particulary drawn to these two clerks by the fact that they both had crooked noses, one bent to the left and the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees?”

— Clive Barker

“An old lady had an Alderney cow, which she looked upon as a daughter. ....The whole town knew and kindly regarded Miss Betsy Barker's…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“They sat at a metal table covered by stained and cracked Formica laminate. A huge woman with shoulder-length braids pranced over. Baldwin couldn’t believe…

— J.T. Ellison

“Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air of being…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“...The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it…

— Charles Dickens

“Swirling furiously among the stairs and corridors of her exquisite home like a small and angry white bat Sybilla, Dowager Lady Culter, was not…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“The crows were looking very much the worse for wear. Their black suits were dusty and torn; the maid at the Pension Maria had…

— Eva Ibbotson

“Better the butcher than the meat.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Lady Beatrice grunted and turned to Emma. “Here is your escort, dear.” She shook the elderly man’s arm and shouted in his ear, “This…

— Sally MacKenzie