I took the swab using the collection kit that I’d borrowed from Dominic who, I realized, had left the Boy Scout scale behind and was now verging on Batman levels of crazy preparedness.
I looked into the literature on this, said Nightingale, and it wasn't very helpful.There's a literature about this?You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.
I don’t mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I’m bored of this, can I have full control of my brain ba...
He farted as I reached the inner door as a sign, I decided, of his respect. Alexander
Ghosts, I was thinking, memories - I wasn't sure there was a difference.
Even in the 1980s your average young archaeologist would have had difficulty raising capital for a house. I knew this because it’s one of the things archaeologists will tell you about, at length, at t...
But . . . Dominic floundered around for a bit before pointing at me accusingly. You said that there’s weird shit, but it normally turns out to have a rational explanation. It does, said Beverley. The...
Because were were both probationary constables, an experienced PC had been left to supervise us - a responsibility he diligently pursued from an all-night cafe on St. Martin's Close.
At the bottom of the box I found part of a map that had been ripped down its centrefold – a 1:40,000 scale depiction of a place called Ootacamund, which turned out on later research to be a British Hi...
Sudden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it’s like a normal midlife crisis only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.
„- Ați pus o vrajă pe câine, am spus după ce am plecat.– Doar una mică, a zis Nightingale.– Deci magia e reală, am zis. Ceea ce vă face să fiți…ce, mai exact?– Un vrăjitor.– Ca Harry Potter?Nightingal...
Which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.
Says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in.
Five story Georgian terrace whose elegant proportions would have caused the most hardened Canadian property developer’s soul to weep to see such beauty—just prior to having the place gutted and filled...
Zap,’ I said. ‘That’s the technical term for it, is it? What do you call someone who’s been zapped?’‘Mr. Crispy,’ said Kumar.
You can’t die of jazz, said Dr. Walid. Can you? I thought of Fats Navarro, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker who, when he died, was mistaken by a coroner for a man twice his real age. You know, I sai...
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression o...
We'd considered wearing uniform but Lesley said, what with her mask and everything, she'd look like a plastic cop monster from Doctor Who. I managed to restrain myself from telling her their real name...
We should tell forensics that the murder weapon may be archaeological, I said.Archaeological? asked Seawoll.Could be, I said.Is that your professional opinion?Yes.
Vikings, said Lesley. Precisely, said Nightingale. Bloodthirsty, but surprisingly erudite in a limited fashion. Well