The Siamese Twin Mystery Quotes

“I always said higher education was perfectly useless against the ordinary emergencies of life.”
― Ellery Queen, The Siamese Twin Mystery

“The Inspector [Richard Queen] turned slowly to survey the faces of the customary puppets. They were always puppets, he reflected--damned wooden-faced ones, when they wanted to keep something back. And they all wanted to keep something back in a murder investigation. There was nothing to be learned from all those guilty countenances. But guilt, he knew from the bitter wisdom of experience, was only a comparative quality of the human animal. It was the heart, not the face, which told the guilty tale.”
― Ellery Queen, Siamese Twin Mystery