The Secret Hangman Quotes

“It was in one of my fashion encyclopedias. It’s funny. Top hats were supposed to be the mark of a well-dressed man, yet they have quite a sinister reputation.” “As worn by undertakers?” “True, but I’m talking about what happened to the people who made them. They treated the felt with salts of mercury, so they were breathing in poisonous fumes. They’d get the shakes and twitch. That’s how the phrase “mad as a hatter” is supposed to have originated.” “I thought that was Alice in Wonderland.” “No it goes back a good thirty years before Lewis Carroll.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Secret Hangman

“This ram raid on Sunday. You’re convinced it’s going to happen?”
― Peter Lovesey, The Secret Hangman