Quotes from Stella Duffy

Bix looked at Alleyn with all the enthusiasm of a smart Labrador offered the chance of a long walk and a good many rabbits

A certain style of modern detective fiction might show our hero rushing to a terribly clever supposition by page sixteen and spending the rest of the novel proving himself right, but for your long-suffering actual policeman there is merely painstaking elimination and solid detective work, which means questioning every possible suspect.

Struck down by the kind of nervous distress known only to the most modern of artists and then only those with a private income

It's never fair. It has never been fair, any of it, and our reasonableness cannot undo the unfair.