A Scotchwoman’s Shortbread Biscuits Cream together ½ pound (1 cup) warm butter with ¾ cup dark brown sugar. Work in 2 ¼ cups flour—slightly less if the mixture is too dry to hold together. Chill brie...
When we arrived at his cottage we had known each other forever.
These last weeks, since Christmas, have been odd ones. I have begun to doubt that I knew you as well as I thought. I have even wondered if you wished to keep some part of yourself hidden from me in or...
The response to a festering sore was not to extol its virtues, but to lance the thing and let the poison bleed out.
THE END OF a case is always long, tedious, and anticlimactic,
Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman
Marsh looked at me sideways, causing a brief stir of familiarity. You liked the library?It was all I could do to keep her from bolting herself inside, Alistair told him.With mock indignation, I protes...
Margery, I blurted out in a passion of frustration. I don't know what to make of you!Nor I you, Mary. Frankly, I cannot begin to comprehend the motives of a person who dedicates a large portion of her...
Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.
I took the broom and made a wild sweep along the workbench, and an edge of the unwieldy head sent a tray of tools flying. Patrick picked up a chipped chisel and looked at me as if I had attacked his s...
I think not. I find short hair too much fuss, always needing combing and cutting. Long hair is much easier, oddly enough. There
I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life in exploration, not of the darker crannies of human misbehaviour, but of the heights of human speculat...
He was a talkative man and jabbered away the whole time as his horse meandered about the road. It saved us from having to construct a story for him, though by the time he left us in Banbury, I was mos...
Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.
For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.
Since people who discovered bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place.
Who am I?’ you mean. He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. Do you know what a fugue is? Are you changing the subject? No. I thought in silence for some dis...
No doubt after the emperor was overthrown in 1911, your gardener would have joined the rest of the world in cutting the queue and taking on the laws and customs of his adoptive land. Before that, his...
Holmes, didn’t you tell me a few weeks ago that there has been a series of burglaries from inns and public houses in Eastbourne? I hardly think two qualifies as a series, Russell. You are interrupting...
But somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.