Inspector Hobbes and the Blood / Inspector Hobbes and the Curse / Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers Quotes

“Not being rich, or ever likely to be, it was unlikely I’d succumb to that particular temptation and I enjoyed a sudden feeling of righteous superiority over my less fortunate, if much richer, neighbours.”
― Wilkie Martin, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood / Inspector Hobbes and the Curse / Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers

“tipped three spoons of tea into the pot, inundating it with boiling water and picked up the chipped mugs. ‘Careful with those,’ said Hobbes, ‘they’re Chippendale.’ ‘Oh right, of course.’ I held them with exaggerated care. They showed images of Chip and Dale, the cartoon chipmunks.”
― Wilkie Martin, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood / Inspector Hobbes and the Curse / Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers

“wouldn’t have bet on a sepia photograph of Queen Victoria. ‘I see you’re admiring my picture of the queer old dean.”
― Wilkie Martin, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood / Inspector Hobbes and the Curse / Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers

“The belt clicked around my belly and he started the engine with a roar. Why he roared, I’ll never know and I came within a whisker of wetting myself. I felt how I imagined I’d feel if someone locked me in a cage with a tiger, except tigers are beautiful.”
― Wilkie Martin, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood / Inspector Hobbes and the Curse / Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers

“I’d learned from Hobbes that feelings, or instincts, came from the subconscious and should not be ignored since they were often more reliable than the intellect, especially when the intellect was mine.”
― Wilkie Martin, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood / Inspector Hobbes and the Curse / Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers