Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders
Tessa Arlen
"Police Inspector Hargreaves of Wickham’s Criminal Investigation Department loomed over me as I sat on the edge of my chair."
"Police Inspector Hargreaves of Wickham’s Criminal Investigation Department loomed over me as I sat on the edge of my chair."
"The term Acela Corridor refers to the run of states, cities, and municipalities between Boston and Washington, D.C., that lie along the route of the high-speed train service, the Amtrak Acela."
"Hugh, cloaked in righteous indignation as well as a measure of true sorrow for Lady Love’s demise and his usual desire to see fair play, was happy to go along with the plan."
"Have you been in this part of the country before?” the taxi driver asked as we approached Barnsley for the first time."
"Ask Nick the place for Saturday night culture, and he’d tell you it was Clune’s Theater before you completed the question."
"There he was again, smoking a cigar in front of the Infant Incubators."
"In Springfield, they check into their hotel, an aging Holiday Inn off the interstate."
"Who am I? It is a question Nathaniel the actor asked himself with every new character he was to play."
"Maybe this sparseness wasn’t unusual, maybe they all lived like this, with few personal possessions, with nothing to tie them down to the secular world."
"The long thin wedge. I had heard Mycroft speak of it before. It was a metaphor, I suppose, for whatever he did at Whitehall."
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