All Roads Lead to Murder Quotes

“What can I do for you gentlemen?” he asked when he had recovered himself. “Incidentally, do you know yet how long you’re going to be staying?” “We pray to the gods each day,” Carolus said, “that it will be our last here.” “Are we hurting your business?” I asked. “Oh, no! Quite the opposite. The excitement surrounding your stay has drawn good crowds to my dining room.” “Are you suggesting,” Tacitus said, “that if you had realized how well it paid, you might have murdered one of your guests long before now?” “What? I…? Whatever makes you think…?”
― Albert A. Bell Jr., All Roads Lead to Murder: A Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger

“And, as Herodotus said about the Persian king’s messengers, ‘Neither heat nor snow nor gloom of night’ could stop them.”
― Albert A. Bell Jr., All Roads Lead to Murder: A Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger

“What’s the matter?” I asked, grabbing his arm. “He’s dead!” the innkeeper gasped and pointed to the open door of Cornutus’ room, directly across from mine. “Lucius Cornutus is dead!” “Dead? By the gods! What are you saying?” “His heart!” He clutched his hands to his own heart. I couldn’t believe this fellow had the medical knowledge to recognize that Cornutus had some problem with his heart. I grabbed his shoulders and shook him. “What about his heart?” After several false starts, he managed to sputter out, “He doesn’t… have one anymore.”
― Albert A. Bell Jr., All Roads Lead to Murder: A Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger

“Chryseis was in another wing in the back of the house and would not be aware of our presence. I hadn’t taken much notice of the house on my previous visit, but I now realized it was quite large, and built on the Roman model.”
― Albert A. Bell Jr., All Roads Lead to Murder