Murder Mystery

Famous quotes containing the words murder and/or mystery:

“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)

“Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. Of all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong’s pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)