Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
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Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bur...
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What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.
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All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.
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Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit, and their Sundays were marked by exhaustio...
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Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well...
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(A murderer about their victim:)"He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.
