Crime Writer Quotes

“I don’t want to lose my inhibitions.”
“You have inhibitions? Where are you hiding them?”
― Sarah Morgan, Miracle on 5th Avenue

“I already told you, you’re not my type.”
“I thought you didn’t have a type.”
“I probably shouldn’t. Given how long it is since I had sex, my type should just be anyone with a penis and pulse, right?”
― Sarah Morgan, Miracle on 5th Avenue

“His thick eyebrows drew together in a familiar frown. The blood pooled around the half-body was a bright cherry red. He bent to look closer at the woman's face. It was flushed pink, even following this horrible death. Norris's reaction was recorded by a crime writer and would later become part of his often theatrical legend. He walked over to the waiting detectives and announced, 'Boys, you can't hold this man for murder.”
― Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York