Only an idiot or or ,’ the Professor said, patiently.
How did your parents come to be lost at sea, Moriarty?'The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.
No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.
He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.
He stroked Tibbles, who was starting to leak and make nasty little noises.
Moriarty rarely smiled,and then usually to terrify some poor victim. The first time I heard him laugh, I thought he had been struck by a deadly poison and the stutter escaping through his locked jaws...
Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical mind, the impossible is simply a theorem...
Moriarty smiled his adder’s smile.And I relaxed. I . My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I’d never got before upon meeting a man. When I’d had it from women, the upshot ranged from d...
Mad' sounds dashing, daring and admirable when you hold the tattered flag in the midst of battle and expired natives lie all over the carpet with holes in 'em that you put there. 'Mad' is less impress...
This is the moral, Oh My Best Beloved: never kill anyone for a 'Cause'.For why not, Uncle Basher?Because causes don't pay, Little Friend of all the World. Adherents expect you to kill just for the rig...
Love is always a species of insanity. If
Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.
There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent...
Impaler,’ she declared, ‘I have no equal.
Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding mid...
Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slos...
Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few.
We need to stop the little girl, said Richard pass me that shotgun.
Quite a few vampires, especially the elders, regarded those who creep through graveyard shadows in batwing capes and fingerless black gloves as an Edinburgh gentleman might look upon a Yankee with a s...
