Murder In School Quotes

“Well – sometimes, nothing can be something.”
― Bruce Beckham, Murder In School

“Of course, Inspector – turkeys don’t generally vote for Christmas.”
― Bruce Beckham, Murder In School

“This is a familiar situation: if DI Skelgill gets the merest hint of some irregularity, an errant piece of the jigsaw that doesn’t fit – that might have found its way in by accident from another puzzle altogether – he’ll refuse to be drawn towards what might seem the obvious, convenient and perfectly adequate conclusion.  Instead he’ll pursue any number of unpromising leads, explore blind avenues, and concoct improbable theories, giving the impression that the investigation is going nowhere fast, and everywhere else slowly.  Then, suddenly, early one morning, he’ll come back from a fishing trip on Bassenthwaite Lake and move in for the kill with all the devastating speed and single-minded ruthlessness of the pike.”
― Bruce Beckham, Murder In School

“He says, ‘You could begin, Inspector, by parking less conspicuously.  There’s a tradesman’s area at the rear.”
― Bruce Beckham, Murder In School

“Mr Goodman, a small neat man in his late fifties, with thinning oiled hair and thick round-lensed spectacles (a combination that, among successive generations of schoolboys, has consistently earned him the nickname Himmler),”
― Bruce Beckham, Murder In School

“shtoom.”
― Bruce Beckham, Murder In School

“Such avian silence is punctuated only by the occasional plunk of a trout sinking an ovipositioning daddy longlegs, and the hysterical cackle of a Mallard that finally gets last night’s joke.”
― Bruce Beckham, Murder In School