Keith Hudson

“It’s good to hope; it’s the waiting that spoils it (Yiddish”
― Colin Dexter, The Remorseful Day

“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody ( Joseph Heller, Catch”
― Colin Dexter, The Remorseful Day

“He had the alertly stupid look of a dullard, Tom thought; the kind of child that either dies young or grows up to be the village idiot.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“a bizarre footnote, in 2010 Julia Thomas’s skull was unearthed in the garden of the broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. A team of builders discovered the skull when they were excavating foundations for an extension, at the spot where the Rising Sun once stood. In July 2011, the West London coroner Alison Thompson formally identified the skull as belonging to Julia Thomas and recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.”
― Catharine Arnold, Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City