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1 " mystery "
― Ruskin Bond , The Perfect Murder
2 " Is the perfect murder ever possible? "
3 " One evening in November two brothers were seated in a little café in the Rue de la Roquette discussing murders. The evening papers lay in front of them, and they all contained a lurid account of a shocking affair in the Landes district, where a charcoal-burner had killed his wife and two children with a hatchet. "
4 " To try to borrow money from Henri was like appealing to the desert for a cooling draught. "
5 " Christie, in particular, was a great one for the locked room mystery. The victim retires to his room, the door is locked from within, nothing has been forced open and yet the person has been shot or stabbed or clubbed to death. How did this happen? The question has been answered in various ingenious ways, usually involving a brilliant detective who can pick out clues the way you and I never could. "