Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King
Laurie R. Kingis an American author best known for her detective fiction...
NationalityAlgerian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 September 1952
CountryAlgeria
madness turmoil centre
...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.
phrases wells
Most damning of phrases: He meant well.
dark giving curiosity
I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.
husband devil relief
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
mind insult argument
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
doors envy lovely
Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it." "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below." "You envy me my educated tastes." "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell.
worry mind mysterious
However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.
madness
Eccentricty had flowered into madness.
jamaica wife bedroom
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
together stories sometimes
When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.
assumption possibility careless
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.
dog lasts canine
The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.
years prudes holmes
Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.
spring winter gun
. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .