Quotes About Puzzle

And what was that on the man's wrist? Collin clenched a hand around his own wrist, feeling for what was missing.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler. Pretty much any detective on the job loves a good puzzle.

Except Detective Reed did show up today. You

the unsolved case of the two dead women found nearly a month apart, linked by the way their bodies had been left in the snow, was uppermost in her mind. The

at you." "Maybe she was just playing hard to

key question that remained unanswered. Who was

Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?

The problem has just suddenly become a lot more interesting. Er, difficult. It's just become a bit more difficult.

What became of her?" "Her?" Buffalo furrowed his brow. "Let's see, now. She was the one

Mugworm Griblick

Miss Nogard?

Is it possible that is not known?

Por eso sus obras policiacas (setenta y nueve novelas, diecinueve piezas de teatro) son mundos circulares perfectamente explicables, juegos matemáticos para alivio no sólo de la cabeza sino del corazón, universos previsibles en donde el bien y el mal ocupan lugares prefijados.

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain.

this is the first part of this precious manuscript

Salvation was mysterious, wasn't that always true?

Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk? Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea.

I want to be someone so filled with curiosity and determination that I trundle around foreign cities looking for obscure pieces of a puzzle that might help me understand who I am, and still be game for Zumba when I'm eighty.

Man found floating by the docks" - San Dan Glokta

It doesn't really make sense. Guess it's not supposed to.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.