Author: Ellery Queen

Cites

• Donne (1)
  • IN: Cop Out (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No man is an island, entire of itself.
    FROM: "No Man is an Island", (1624), Poem, UK
• Andrew Marvell (1)
  • IN: A Fine and Private Place (1971) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: The graves a fine and private place.
    FROM: To His Coy Mistress, (1681), Poem, UK
• George Whalley (1)
  • IN: A Fine and Private Place (1971) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: So is the womb
    FROM: Poetic Process, (1953), Essay, Canada
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: I might paraphrase that interesting observation in Schlegel's Athenaeum goes: ‘Der Historiker ist ein riickwarts gekehrter Prophet/ by pointing out that: ‘The detective is a prophet looking backwards' Or Carlyle’s more subtle observation about history by agreeing that: The process of detection (as opposed to History ) is ‘a distillation of rumor.’
    FROM: Excerpt from an Anonymous Article in Esoterica Americana, Attributed by Some to Matsoyuma Tahukiy the Noted Japanese Authority on the Occident., (1934), Fictional, NULL
• Prof Bachmann, Florenz (1)
  • IN: The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “In science, in history, in psychology, in all manner of pursuits which require an application of thought to the appearance of phenomena, things are very often not what they seem. Lowell, the illustrious American thinker, said: ‘ A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.’ I think precisely the same theorem can be laid down for the student of criminology…. “The human mind is a fearful and tortuous thing. When any part of it is warped— even if it be so lightly that all the instruments of modern psychiatry cannot detect the warping— the result is apt to be confounding. Who can describe a motive? A passion? A mental process? “My advice, the gruff dictum of one who has been dipping his hands into the unpredictable vapours of the brain for more years than he cares to recall, is this: Use your eyes, use the little grey cells God has given you, but be ever wary. There is pattern but no logic in criminality. It is your task to cohere confusion, to bring order out of chaos.”
    FROM: Closing Address to Class in Applied Criminology at University of Munich, (1920), NULL, NULL