Catherine Aird Quotes

If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.

Not even the Superintendent could play about with gravity.

Dead and never called her mother, in fact,” misquoted Sloan, who had once seen the Berebury Amateur Dramatic Society play East Lynne, and never forgotten the searing experience.

We know hardly anything about anything.

WHO HAS HIS BIRTH DAY, HAS HIS BURIALL TOO; AS WE INTO THE WORLD COME, OUT WE GOE.

I never touch nothing with writing on it.

What condition?’

‘He's got a bad heart as well as the leg injuries he got in the war which put him in his wheelchair.’

‘Ah.’ If there was one thing which every policeman knew it was that families were bad for every medical condition, but especially for heart ones. Legs were less important.

He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at Berebury Police Station.

In detective work you thought in much the same way as you would pick your way across a swamp, testing for firm ground each time you took a step forward.