Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything.
As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born....
There’s always a secret door, I said. That’s why you always need a thief in your party.
There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.
I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.
Five hundred years ago the notoriously savvy Henry VIII discovered an elegant way to solve both his theological problems and his personal liquidity crisis - he dissolved the monasteries and nicked all...
Her hair was piled up under a broad-brimmed
The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse [...] stuck in my mind because of the subject's flagrant health and safety violation. As any competent practitioner will tell you, you always complete your...
I asked whether the High Fae came into the pub. Lulu gave me a crooked smile. High Fae? she asked. You know. The gentry, elves, those posh gits with extradimensional castles, stone spears and unicorns...
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the o...
I’d found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.
I nodded absently as I made a note of the pub. The Rising Sun drinking establishment exists right on the fringes of the demi-monde – not being nearly as antique or mysterious as it pretends to be.
Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.
— Cum te mai simți? a întrebat el.— Uman, am zis.— E suficient, a spus.
Never run a game of Hide the Lady if you can’t remember where you’ve put the queen, because some people embrace forensic accounting as a blood sport.
This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever it is and however small the thing it is they do.
I’m working on several theories, I said. But I’m currently favoring the hypothesis that the moon has a seemingly arbitrary effect on magic because it likes to piss me off. That’s a theory with a high...
I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or la...
Class-war evil supernatural black fungus. I love it.