Quotes: Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr
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stonepicnicking_okapiI read Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr [1931, e-book] and highlighted some quotes. It has a lot Poe-esque ambience. This is book #2 in Carr's Mephistophelean French detective Bencolin series (with Jeff, his American Watson).
Then, subtly, Bencolin took command. The man could be genial when he chose; leaning back with a cigar in his fingers, he spoke lightly and with frankness of the whole affair. He mentioned the incongruity of French detectives and German crimes. [ch. IV]
“You read the magazines,” I said. “So do I,” Sally Reine informed me. “My old man gets heaps of them from the States. I like the detective-story ones, where the characters aren’t allowed to swear, and the Chicago gangster cries, ‘Good gracious!’ It’s nice to see the tough racketeer become a pathological case at one sweep of an editor’s blue pencil…” [ch. XV]
And this is tempting me to scribble a bit of watersports for Cheers.
Golden Dawns, and I’ve always wanted to mix them. You use two parts gin, one part orange juice, and one part apricot brandy.” [ch. XV]
Then, subtly, Bencolin took command. The man could be genial when he chose; leaning back with a cigar in his fingers, he spoke lightly and with frankness of the whole affair. He mentioned the incongruity of French detectives and German crimes. [ch. IV]
“You read the magazines,” I said. “So do I,” Sally Reine informed me. “My old man gets heaps of them from the States. I like the detective-story ones, where the characters aren’t allowed to swear, and the Chicago gangster cries, ‘Good gracious!’ It’s nice to see the tough racketeer become a pathological case at one sweep of an editor’s blue pencil…” [ch. XV]
And this is tempting me to scribble a bit of watersports for Cheers.
Golden Dawns, and I’ve always wanted to mix them. You use two parts gin, one part orange juice, and one part apricot brandy.” [ch. XV]