On this sheet of paper were roughly drawn, in ink, two daggers, about six inches in length, with remarkably pointed blades.

But there, if you don't choose to see things from my point of view, that is no reason why you should lose your temper! A chair stood in front of the toilet table, and on a small Japanese table to the right of the chair were placed hair-pin box, comb and brush, and hand mirror. Dyer hastened to explain that this was the lady by whose aid he hoped to get to the bottom of the matter now under consideration. Now, Miss Monroe is an heiress—will come into her mother's large fortune when she is of age—and Sir George, naturally, would like her to make a good match.He demonstrates to his mother and father that as per the inscription above the portcullis at Edinburgh Castle that you do indeed ‘Cross Me and Suffer’. Best know for his Rebus series, they deliver hard-boiled crime with a distinct Scottish flavour - sometimes cheesily referred to as "Tartan Noir". Since I received this information an altogether remarkable cross-firing of telegrams has been going backwards and forwards along the wires to Cork. Other details, I assure you, in this somewhat intricate case, have been infinitely more difficult to get at.

Boris Bukhstab in his preface for the 1973 six-volume Leskov collection, described the novel as "bad" and "weak", with "every character being a blackmailer, a thief or a murderer. His bewilderment, however, was nothing compared with that of Miss O'Grady, when she entered the room and found herself face to face with her late guardian, instead of the radiant bride and bridegroom whom she had expected to meet. A well written sharp, incisive crime story (much like a dagger thrust should be) is a thing of beauty.Phil Lovesey’s “Homework” presents the unexpected impact on a high school student of learning Shakespeare through viewing Mel Gibson’s movie version of Hamlet, which spawns a devious plan for revenge.