41 Quotes About Mystery-fiction

A mystery is only a fact in disguise

The unsigned will is one of those tropes of detective fiction that I’ve come to dislike, only because it’s so overused. In real life, a lot of people don’t even bother to make a will but then we’ve all managed to persuade ourselves that we’re going to live for ever. They certainly don’t go round the place threatening to change it in order to give someone the perfect excuse to come and kill them. It looked as if Alan Conway had done exactly that.

Sometimes the brain gets left out of the equation when a person builds up a belief in something so much that they believe it with their heart and soul. They want to hold onto their convictions when confronted with truths contrary to their views of reality.

The government don’t need any help creatin’ Big Brother. Folks are buyin’ up that stuff all by themselves. Cameras and microphones all over the house, watchin’ and listenin’ to everything. Their whole lives played out on social media platforms.

Where is the Sacred Pendant?

Judy was still wondering about “those eyes

I’m not crazy, man. I mean, it’s not like I believe Hitler has a base on the dark side of the moon or something. Maybe Iceland but not the moon.

God made us curious, so we explore, but we’ll never achieve control of the inner workings of creation. - UNCLE HENRY

Any fool can tell a lie, and any fool can believe it; but the right method is to tell the truth in such a way that the intelligent reader is seduced into telling the lie for himself.