Quotes About Mystery

House, we'd been told. If I needed any further indication of what

slim, brightly wrapped package

suspected in the

dark roads in the Catskills

We're vampires," he finally whispered to the murdered couple.

smudged with black powder. Every mirror, every painting, had been taken down from the walls. Even the benign and wise Charlie Clapper was disgusted: "The Baileys had a lot of friends and a lot of parties. We've got enough prints and trace to short out the crime lab. For a year." Conklin said, "How about it, Sarge?" "Okay. We're done." We turned out the lights as

Well, they can't have done it to every camera in the neighborhood," Loughlin said. "We'll pick them up.

roadway. We didn't stop at the house, but instead rounded the corner and stopped a block away. Stepping out and

Kilroy was here

Was the missing girl reported to the police?" "I think so. All I know is what I was told. And I was told that Helga Schmidt went missing and was never heard from again.

of," I said. "There's more, Alex." Normally Joan was pretty matter-of-fact, even at the roughest scenes, but there was a tightness in her voice

body in the morgue belonged to a member of my

to tell about that for sure yet.

brutal mass murder had taken place in that white house on the cul-de-sac before us. The Daley family of Omaha—Calvin, Bea, Ross, Sharon, and Janet—were found dead in their home two nights before Christmas.

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heads—and since cops

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They cut her and cooked her and ate her up.

Anyone who says they know what I'll do next is full of shit 'cause even I don't know what I'll do next.

anything." She steps toward me. "I want to know what you

The billionaire, Gabe Chayefsky. He's the guy who hired me to empty that bank box.

Klaus talked in his sleep.

building had turned out to be murders. She

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