Author: Linda Fairstein

Cites

• William Shakespeare (3)
  • IN: Killer Look (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all.
    FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
  • IN: The DeadHouse (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who steals my purse steals trash, But he that filches from me my good name....
    FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
• W. H. Auden (2)
  • IN: Terminal City (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good.
    FROM: A Certain World, (1970), Book, England/US
  • IN: Night Watch (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
    FROM: Herman Melville, (1939), Poem, US/England
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Devil's Bridge (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All detectives might be called investigators, but not all investigators can be called detectives. Investigators need a trail of facts which might eventually lead to a successful conclusion of their inquiry. If there are no investigative leads to pursue, then they are finished. This is where a detective comes in -- a person who can paint a landscape he has never seen from inside a darkened room, which is actually the crime scene. That's the difference between the craft and the art.
    FROM: Scotland Yard, (None), NULL, UK
• Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (1)
  • IN: Cold Hit (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am spellbound by the mystery of murder.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Bible (2)
  • IN: Bad Blood (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground…
    FROM: Bible, Genesis 4:10, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Death Angel (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called… Bethesda… For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water.
    FROM: Bible, John 5:2, 4, (100), Bible, NULL
• Edgar Allan Poe (2)
  • IN: Hell Gate (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Resignedly beneath the sky the melancholy waters lie. So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air, While from a proud tower in the town death looks gigantically down.
    FROM: The City in the Sea, (1845), Poem, US
  • IN: Entombed (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of… extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality… We know of nothing so agonizing upon Earth-we can dream of nothing half so hideous in the realms of the nethermost Hell.
    FROM: The Premature Burial, (1844), Short story, US
• Auden,W. H (1)
  • IN: Terminal City (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good.
    FROM: A Certain World, (1970), Book, US/England
• Former chief inspector, Scotland Yard (1)
  • IN: Devil's Bridge (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All detectives might be called investigators, but not all investigators can be called detectives. Investigators need a trail of facts which might eventually lead to a successful conclusion of their inquiry. If there are no investigative leads to pursue, then they are finished. This is where a detective comes in-a person who can paint a landscape he has never seen from inside a darkened room, which is actually the crime scene. That’s the difference between the craft and the art.
    FROM: Practical Homicide Investigation by Vernon J Geberth, (1983), Book, UK
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: Deadfall (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL