It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is somethi...
It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater,
If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've brok...
I think you’re going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.’ ‘For what?’ I asked. Nightingale hesitated. ‘Quoting, mainly,’ he said. ‘And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.
Hyde Park Corner is what happens when a bunch of urban planners take one look at the grinding circle of gridlock that surrounds the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and think—that’s what we want for our town.
He asked if we were really ghost hunting, and I said we were. What, like officially? Officially secret, I said because discretion is supposed to be, if not our middle name, at least a nickname we occa...
Do you know what happened to the last police officer who made a joke about DS Stephanopoulos? No, what did happen to him? Nobody else knows either
Desde que la humanidad dejó de vagar sin rumbo y empezó a cultivar su propia comida, la sociedad se ha vuelto más complicada. En cuanto dejamos de acostarnos con nuestras primas y construimos paredes,...
Das Leben ist zu kurz, um schlechten Wein zu trinken.- Quoted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
Carnivorous unicorns, I thought.
Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.
As Martin noted, to the detective conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about- especially once he realiz...
A civilizáció és bürokrácia egy másik kulcsfontosságú jellemzője a tehetetlenség.
„În cameră era de asemenea și Zeița Râului Tamisa. Stătea tronând pe unul dintre cele mai bune scaune executive de birou. Părul îi era împletit, cu șuvițe de bumbac alb și tapat cu aur, încât îi venea...
Zach looked at Carey in consternation, obviously wondering if we were using the rare good cop/loony cop interrogation technique.
Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londone...
This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself—ask any soldier.
There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.
There’s a goddess of the river, I said. Yes—Mother Thames, he said patiently. And there’s a god of the river—Father Thames. Are they related? No, he said. And that’s part of the problem. Are they real...