Phil Lecomber > Quotes

“to encourage the English proletariat to adopt the tenets of Bolshevism and rise up against their betters, of course.”
― Phil Lecomber, Mask of the Verdoy: A George Harley Mystery

“The Lord Chancellor’s son? I mean, you’d think they’d be … well, I don’t know … doing something worthwhile.’ Harley laughed. ‘I think he’s supposed to be an ancient Greek actually, Pearson. I dunno, I suppose they all feel a bit lost, don’t they.”
― Phil Lecomber, Mask of the Verdoy: A George Harley Mystery

“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work”; but essentially it is the language of the dispossessed, the marginal.”
― Phil Lecomber, Mask of the Verdoy: A George Harley Mystery

“Coal-black eyes darted beneath a single, wiry outcrop of eyebrow,”
― Phil Lecomber, Mask of the Verdoy: A George Harley Mystery