Quotes About Intrigue

you hid to see all that?" he cried. "It seems to me that you knows a deal more than you should." Holmes laughed and threw his card across

have from all quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask. "This is indeed a mystery

Un estudio en escarlata, ¿eh? ¿Por qué no hemos de emplear un poco el argot artístico? Nos encontramos con el hilo rojo del asesinato enzarzado en la madeja incolora de la vida, y nuestro deber consiste en desenmarañarlo, aislarlo y poner a la vista hasta la última pulgada.

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together. "It is simplicity itself

My own seal." "Imitated." "My photograph." "Bought." "We were both in the photograph." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an indiscretion.

There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and

Arthur Conan Doyle

I saw the vague outline of a man, a shade blacker than the blackness of the open door.

The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him. That's what puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime.

It is a romance! cried Mrs. Forrester. An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal, and a wooden-legged ruffian. They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl.

He slipped an emerald snake ring from his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more highly," said Holmes.

Holmes held out a small chip with the letters NN and a space of clear wood after them.

I'm not certain what you mean by that last bit," I said at last. "As for the first, you said 'until last year.' Does that mean that Lady Tamara has someone else in view?" "But of course," Nee said blandly. "The Marquis of Shevraeth." I laughed all the way up the steps into the Residence.

You really think there's something back there? Something we don't know here? Jacob's

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

Wait till you see the bedrooms," Eleanor said. "Mine used to be the embalming room, I think." "It's the home I've always dreamed of," Theodora said. "A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. Particularly if my thoughts happened to be about murder or suicide or—

Nothing in this house moves until you look away, and then you just catch something from the corner of your eye.

It's the home I've always dreamed of, Theodora said. A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. Particularly if my thoughts happened to be about murder or suicide or-

Hill House went dancing,' Theodora said, 'taking us along a mad midnight fling. At least I think it was dancing; it might have been turning somersaults.

They walked over to it and Brad bent down gingerly: It's a leg all right, he said.

Then out of the blue there came Shapiro the Bookkeeper who didn't play a bad game of chess and Rose fell for him.

Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting.