Detective in the White City Quotes

“He resolved for Detective Geyer to undertake a careful and methodical search for the blunder which a criminal always makes between the inceptions and consummation of his crime.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Geyer and Gary looked at each other and wearily sat down. All the weeks of travel in the hottest months of the year investigating lead after lead, alternating between faith, hope, discouragement, and despair.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Somewhere in the midst of a great story was a profound untruth so dark, that if true, would have wiped the direct line of Detective Frank Geyer’s future generations of family off the face of the earth.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“It was more than a show of support for the new president, it was a show of immense compassion, for two months before his inauguration, Franklin Pierce and his wife, Jane, suffered an unthinkable tragedy…”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Frank and other boys his age watched with wonder and excitement as squads drilled in vacant lots throughout the city. They fantasized about joining the Army to show support for the cause. If government let high-schoolers fight along side fathers, uncles and brothers, why not let fifth and sixth graders join the Army too?”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Emotional and filled with unthinkable sorrow, Mrs. Pitezel had to see where Howard took his last breath—where Holmes ripped her son from her.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Thousands of soldiers, ink barely dry on discharge papers, begged in vain to start a new campaign of revenge.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“The short, but powerful police officer left a saloon and went straight for the police station, set out to do exactly what he planned even if no one believed a drunk like him.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“While Geyer was on the German steamship to Rio de Janeiro, his co-workers struggled to cope with intense emotions. The day after forty-five miners died in the Roslyn, Washington, explosion, Philadelphia suffered a tragedy of their own—one that would rock City Hall and its police force to its core.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“It must have taken very careful management to have moved these three separate parties from Detroit to Toronto, without either of the three discovering either of the others, but this great expert in crime did it, and did it successfully,” Geyer later said.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Despite a protective Geyer threatening to “break the neck of the first reporter who attempted to interview the woman,” a determined reporter caught Mrs. Pitezel on her way out of the Rossin House dining room.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“While United States sent troops to war, bitter racial tensions erupted into an all-out race riot in South Philadelphia. And unbeknownst to a petite, young, professional woman—she was the cause.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“. . . the two families were about to be impacted in a major way as Philadelphia and the rest of the world were slammed with a pandemic so catastrophic that it killed more people than World War I.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Rot! Absolute rot! Hatch was merely an alias of Holmes. He had as many as a city directory, but he used the name Hatch frequently. If Hatch did the killing, Holmes will hang for it, for Holmes and Hatch are one and the same person,' Linden said.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer