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1 " I wanted to add a photo of where Bruce Beckham's Inspector Skelgill likes to fish but I couldn't figure how to do it. "
― Bruce Beckham , Murder in Adland (DI Skelgill Investigates, #1)
2 " a philosophy borrowed from the long-suffering Scots, that there is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes. "
― Bruce Beckham , Murder in the Mind (DI Skelgill Investigates, #6)
3 " I began to appreciate that the job of an amateur sleuth was not quite so straightforward as they make out in the whodunits. "
― Bruce Beckham , Murder Mystery Collection
4 " ken whit tae dae wi’ it. "
5 " for whom the countryside is something with which to engage superficially, in the same category as a cinema complex, a shopping mall, or even a holiday to a hot climate where luxury hotels line up along fake beaches of imported bulldozered sand and craned-in palm trees. "
― Bruce Beckham , Murder Mystery Weekend (DI Skelgill Investigates, #11)
6 " Of course, Inspector – turkeys don’t generally vote for Christmas. "
― Bruce Beckham , Murder In School (DI Skelgill Investigates, #2)
7 " Well – sometimes, nothing can be something. "
8 " Frowning, Skelgill must be reminded that one can never cease to be amazed by the amount of blood that fits inside one person. "
9 " there are fewer flames, and "
― Bruce Beckham , Murder on the Lake (DI Skelgill Investigates, #4)
10 " chipolatas. "
11 " Such avian silence is punctuated only by the occasional plunk of a trout sinking an ovipositioning daddy longlegs, and the hysterical cackle of a Mallard that finally gets last night’s joke. "
12 " It is rather like taking pot luck with the map of the London Underground, randomly hopping off at a station, and hoping there is somebody hanging around with nothing better to do than provide useful directions. "
13 " Skelgill – a man who watches precious little television and who associates the commercial break with putting on the kettle – seems thoroughly unimpressed "
14 " However, Skelgill’s time is precious, and if he is not to become the second casualty of the day, bored to an early death, he must regain the initiative. "
15 " Skelgill shrugs, as though perhaps there is no news as such, and now he "
16 " As such, they are welcomed at the force’s Edinburgh HQ, Fettes Avenue. (Skelgill’s little joke is that this surely ought to be renamed Letsby Avenue.) "
17 " Edinburgh motorists are polite but stubborn (it is a Scottish trait, and good reason never to invade). "
18 " and there are one-bedroom flats to rent at weekly rates you wouldn’t even pay for a month back up north. "
19 " It might be an inverted busman’s holiday, but at least he’s a busman. "
― Bruce Beckham , Murder on the Edge (DI Skelgill Investigates, #3)
20 " becomes aware of the fast-enlarging exit sign for Gretna, its kitschy factory outlets, and the A75 west. "
