Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
– Нам сообщили, что это дело невозможно раскрыть, – ответил Морган.– Но зачем мешать попытке его раскрыть? – настойчиво спросил Крайцлер.– Потому, джентльмены, – раздался тихий голос у нас за спиной,...
В моей жизни частенько бывали женщины, но ни одна не смогла вселить в меня те мечты, что я однажды разделил с Кэт на кухне у доктора. Сдается мне, все это умерло вместе с ней; и если кому вдруг покаже...
Troubled than my own—had fallen off a Boston boat and drowned. A lengthy autopsy revealed what I could have
Great sport, during their few idle hours, of sitting in the house’s green-shuttered windows and watching the doings at headquarters through opera glasses, then offering commentary to passing police of...
The Career and Death of the Mad Thief and Murderer, Samuel Green.
John! my grandmother blared as Harriet nodded in confusion. Is that you? No, Grandmother, I said, trotting down the thick Persian carpet on the stairs. It’s Dr. Holmes.
The same outer object may suggest either of many realities formerly associated with it—for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of d...
P252 Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are...
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into p...
A man can be a bachelor, and still be a man—because of his mind, his character, his work. But a woman without children? She’s a spinster, Stevie—and a spinster is always something less than a woman.
— Говорю тебе, сеньорита Стиви, — в джунглях в своих странствиях я видел, есть крестьяне, что живут рядом с логовами и охотничьими землями тигров. Некоторые из этих тигров убивают людей — некоторые не...
What if our murderer viewed his current work as just that sort of protection? Could Sara shift her point of view enough to grasp that every victim and situation leading up to a murder resonated within...
There’s plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can’t bear the listening. My
Leviathan that
Everything I’d ever learned and held dear required me to be a man of action.
But none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.
Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind. William James, The Principles of Psyc...
The fons et origo of all reality, whether from the absolute or the practical point of view, is thus subjective, is ourselves. As bare logical thinkers, without emotional reaction, we give reality to w...
I'd seen this happen several times before, in different institutions, but it was no less remarkable on each occasion: the words were like the flow of water over coals, taking away crackling heat and l...