The Riddle of the Third Mile Quotes

“It is strange to relate (for a man in his profession) that in addition to incurable acrophobia, arachnophobia, myophobia, and ornithophobia, Morse also suffered from necrophobia; and had he known what awaited him now, it is doubtful whether he would have dared to view the horridly disfigured corpse at all.”
― Colin Dexter, The Riddle of the Third Mile

“During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.”
― Colin Dexter, The Riddle of the Third Mile

“And if you must go on about coincidences, you just go home tonight and find the forty-sixth word from the beginning of the forty-sixth psalm, and the forty-sixth word from the end of it – and see what you land up with! Authorized Version, by the way.”
― Colin Dexter, The Riddle of the Third Mile