Leave the Grave Green Quotes

“But if you read Christie or Allingham or Sayers, the detective always got his man. And you’ll notice that the detective always operated outside the system—the stories expressed a comforting belief in the validity of individual action.”
― Deborah Crombie, Leave the Grave Green

“It’s fashionable these days to pooh-pooh the Golden Age crime novel as trivial and unrealistic, but that was not the case at all. It was their stand against chaos. The conflicts were intimate, rather than global, and justice, order and retribution always prevailed. They desperately needed that reassurance. Did you know that Britain lost nearly a third of its young men between 1914 and 1918? Yet that war didn’t physically threaten us in the same way as the next—it stayed safely on the European Front.”
― Deborah Crombie, Leave the Grave Green

“For my dad,
whose creativity and
enjoyment of life
continue to inspire me”
― Deborah Crombie, Leave the Grave Green

“empty”
― Deborah Crombie, Leave the Grave Green

“He said the words flatly, with an ease born of years of practice, yet it still amazed him that such simple sentences could contain such betrayal.”
― Deborah Crombie, Leave the Grave Green