The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse Quotes

“Girl be blowed!” I snapped. “I’m here as a brain, not as a female.”
― Alan Bradley, The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse

“It is no longer enough simply to solve crimes: We modern private detectives must also be able to come up with catchy names for our cases.”
― Alan Bradley, The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse

“I’ve always been amazed by the ease with which a stranger’s life can be reconstructed by simply snooping through their belongings. Art and imagination combine to tell a tale that’s more complete than even a fat printed biography could ever hope to equal. And Mr. Denning was no exception: His secrets were laid so bare that I felt I ought to be apologizing.”
― Alan Bradley, The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse

“There wasn’t a schoolboy on the planet—or a man, for that matter—who would dare disturb a female locked into a WC. I knew that for a fact.”
― Alan Bradley, The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse

“was peering through the microscope at the tooth of an adder I had captured behind the coach house that very morning after church, when there came a light knock at the laboratory door.”
― Alan Bradley, The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse

“I’ve always been amazed by the ease with which a stranger’s life can be reconstructed by simply snooping through their belongings. Art and imagination combine to tell a tale that’s more complete than even a fat printed biography could ever hope to equal.”
― Alan Bradley, The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse

“I’m sorry,” Plaxton whispered, averting his eyes. “This is probably no place for a girl.”
“Girl be blowed!” I snapped. “I’m here as a brain, not as a female.”
― Alan Bradley, The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse