“We should never judge, really; we never know the full circumstances and it’s easy to become”
―
J.R. Ellis,
The Body in the Dales
“this had originally been the HQ of the famous Halifax Building Society, before mutuality had largely been abandoned in the greedy years since Thatcher. Carter smiled at his boss’s political reference but it meant little to him; he couldn’t remember the time before Thatcher.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Quartet Murders
“Think, Carter. Use the “little grey cells”, as Agatha Christie’s Poirot says in the stories. All the great detectives spent time reflecting on the case. Remember Sherlock Holmes playing his violin far into the night.’ ‘And injecting himself with cocaine?’ interjected Steph. ‘You won’t be doing that, will you, sir?’ she asked cheekily. ‘No,’ replied Oldroyd. ‘The similarities between myself and Conan Doyle’s creation are few, apart from our brilliantly perceptive minds.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“Who said that a well-educated person was not someone who knew the answer to every question, but someone who knew where to find the answer?” ― J.R. Ellis
“who’d known her boss a long time and had learned to read his moods.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Nidderdale Murders
“he’d” ― J.R. Ellis, The Whitby Murders
“You don’t go around accusing people of murder without being pretty certain of your ground.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“Power structures were always the same: everyone gets kicked by the people above them and then kicks the person below, especially in an organisation like the police force where rank is all-important.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“injuries” ― J.R. Ellis, Murder at St Anne's
“That’s what Hannah Arendt called the “banality of evil”. She was talking about Adolf Eichmann, an unremarkable bureaucrat whose day at the office involved organising the transportation of Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz. Evil’s very ordinary; it’s close to us all the time, just as goodness is. It’s a dangerous illusion to preen ourselves up on our feelings of superiority” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“It hasn’t been easy.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Murder at Redmire Hall
“He’d got involved with evil and found that there was no way back.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Railway Murders
“a well-educated person was not someone who knew the answer to every question, but someone who knew where to find the answer?” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“There’s nothing the ghoulish public like more than gawping at the scene of a murder.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“Police were like the rest of officialdom generally: they interfered with your work and made things difficult with their regulations and bureaucracy.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“The villagers were used to pothole rescues and the occasional accidental death. Murder was a different matter, especially of a man known as the local rogue. This was no outsider’s crime where the body had been brought in and dumped. This, in all likelihood, had been committed by one of them.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“gantry” ― J.R. Ellis, The Quartet Murders
“clothes, was damp and when Oldroyd” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“Iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve” ― J.R. Ellis, The Royal Baths Murder
“this had originally been the HQ of the famous Halifax Building Society, before mutuality had largely been abandoned in the greedy years since Thatcher. Carter smiled at his boss’s political reference but it meant little to him; he couldn’t remember the time before Thatcher.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Quartet Murders
“Think, Carter. Use the “little grey cells”, as Agatha Christie’s Poirot says in the stories. All the great detectives spent time reflecting on the case. Remember Sherlock Holmes playing his violin far into the night.’ ‘And injecting himself with cocaine?’ interjected Steph. ‘You won’t be doing that, will you, sir?’ she asked cheekily. ‘No,’ replied Oldroyd. ‘The similarities between myself and Conan Doyle’s creation are few, apart from our brilliantly perceptive minds.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“Who said that a well-educated person was not someone who knew the answer to every question, but someone who knew where to find the answer?” ― J.R. Ellis
“who’d known her boss a long time and had learned to read his moods.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Nidderdale Murders
“he’d” ― J.R. Ellis, The Whitby Murders
“You don’t go around accusing people of murder without being pretty certain of your ground.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“Power structures were always the same: everyone gets kicked by the people above them and then kicks the person below, especially in an organisation like the police force where rank is all-important.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“injuries” ― J.R. Ellis, Murder at St Anne's
“That’s what Hannah Arendt called the “banality of evil”. She was talking about Adolf Eichmann, an unremarkable bureaucrat whose day at the office involved organising the transportation of Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz. Evil’s very ordinary; it’s close to us all the time, just as goodness is. It’s a dangerous illusion to preen ourselves up on our feelings of superiority” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“It hasn’t been easy.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Murder at Redmire Hall
“He’d got involved with evil and found that there was no way back.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Railway Murders
“a well-educated person was not someone who knew the answer to every question, but someone who knew where to find the answer?” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“There’s nothing the ghoulish public like more than gawping at the scene of a murder.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“Police were like the rest of officialdom generally: they interfered with your work and made things difficult with their regulations and bureaucracy.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“The villagers were used to pothole rescues and the occasional accidental death. Murder was a different matter, especially of a man known as the local rogue. This was no outsider’s crime where the body had been brought in and dumped. This, in all likelihood, had been committed by one of them.” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“gantry” ― J.R. Ellis, The Quartet Murders
“clothes, was damp and when Oldroyd” ― J.R. Ellis, The Body in the Dales
“Iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve” ― J.R. Ellis, The Royal Baths Murder
