Margaret Millar Quotes

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.

I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could crack the case if I just had that file.

I read a lot about serial killers.

Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner!

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.

Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

Everything has to do with murder.

Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.