The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.
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Zum Autor"The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another."
"There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash."
"I like a good detective story,' he said. 'But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day."
"The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."
"Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go."
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."