Eavesdropping Quote by Ellery Queen

“The Captain’s boat inspections were always pretty slapdash, because they mainly just involved him looking at the ropes and planks and barnacles and then…

— Gideon Defoe

“The captain drummed his fingers on the console. He was afraid that he might soon be conducting his own research project to find out…

— Terry Pratchett

“How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Launching and landing the boats, often chest-deep in water amid the heavy underbrush that lined the riverbank, the men were constantly vulnerable to the…

— Candice Millard

“Then he noticed a little row-boat at about two hundred yards from the shore. There were two or three people aboard, he could not…

— Arthur Machen

“It turned out that somebody had reported a suspicious person on the beach, remember when they used to come in fishing-boats, the illegals, and…

— Salman Rushdie

“Grampie's boat was a little double-ender, a model not built nowadays. She was narrow, so that she pitched and rolled something wicked in almost…

— Ruth Moore

“From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.”

— A.A. Milne

“There was something fishy about Mr. Dolphin, even though he seemed to be a regular mammal salesman. He sold exotic mammals, like Bigfoot, and…

— Jarod Kintz

“The wind whipped up and I listened for ship sails snapping in the harbor cross the road, a place I’d smelled on the breeze,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a…

— Stephen Crane

“Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea.”

— Holly Black