Abattoir Blues Quotes

“a company.’ ‘You’re losing me, Gerry.’ ‘High finance and corporate”
― Peter Robinson, Abattoir Blues

“know. Are you sure it wasn’t just youthful high spirits with”
― Peter Robinson, Abattoir Blues

“waif standing by the seashore on the opposite wall.”
― Peter Robinson, Abattoir Blues

“Vaughn?” she inquired. “One of them. Neil. It’s a family business.” Winsome and Gerry showed their warrant cards and Neil Vaughn invited them inside. The side of an old cardboard box served as a doormat, and they wiped their feet as best they could without reducing it to shreds. Vaughn seemed to be the only person around. After he asked them to sit down, he returned to a desk littered with papers and swiveled his chair to face them. The inside of the trailer was bleak, as such places usually are, and on the pasteboard walls were hung with a girlie calendar curling at the edges, a large chart with written-in squares and an Ordnance Survey”
― Peter Robinson, In the Dark Places