Quotes About Mystery

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

You're brilliant! Where is she?

month ago and Maura Frederick

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Lastly, special thanks to Raymond Chandler for inspiring the title of the book. Describing in 1950 the time and place from which he drew his early crime stories, Chandler wrote, "The streets were dark with something more than night." Sometimes they still are.

He knew that the dark engine of murder would never run low on fuel. Not in his lifetime. Not in anyone's.

pretty name that never

I knew, thanks to the notations on the map page, that one side of the triangle—Zzyzx to the airport in Vegas—was 92 miles. That left 236 miles for the remaining two sides. That number could be divided in a variety of ways, putting the missing point of the triangle in a myriad of possible positions on the map. What

investigator. And they were together that

he knew why, just as he knew that George Irving's death would have been written off as a suicide with Crate

the pale light coming in through the French door leading to the deck I could see who it was. "Milton. What the—" "Shut up, asshole. You surprised to see me? Did you think I was going to let them wash me down the toilet without doing something about it?" "I don't know what you're talking about. Listen, there are

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The unknown subject, McCaleb thought. So we meet again.

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messenger boy here. He wasn't supposed to find out

time. He also discovered that the burglar was still inside. It was this discovery that ultimately brought Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, to the Three Kings Pawnshop.

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Ultimately, Bosch was confounded

Her face seemed to him to have a slight sadness cast in it, as if a mystery carried inside had worked its way outside.

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