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"Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates."
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"Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference."
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"Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?"
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"On general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."
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"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
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"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so."
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"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."
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"How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons."
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"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
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"They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place."
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"King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them."
Love
"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."
Education
"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
Heart
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema
"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
People
"People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police."
People
"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."
History
"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
Change
"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
Dress
"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
Life
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