As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it. – Anon.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed. – Honore de Balzac