“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
― The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
― The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― The Man in the Mist
― The Man in the Mist
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
English Translations of Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries & Thrillers
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