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“The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.”
“Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had b...”
“I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.”
“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories...”