Sentence examples for impossible crimes from inspiring English sources

I'd filed my TechCrunch column earlier in the day and with little else planned, I decided to relax by watching some old episodes of Jonathan Creek: the BBC comedy drama about a magician's assistant who solves seemingly impossible crimes.

He still describes seditious conspiracy as an "impossible crime".

8) The locked room mysteries No one does an impossible crime like the writers of Monk.

Salvator Rosa – Witches at Their Incantations (c 1646) It is important to remember that women were being killed for the impossible crime of witchcraft when Salvator Rosa painted this spooky scene.

It was then that pioneering historians began to do what most historians had thought impossible: create crime statistics for eras that did not systematically keep crime data.

Widespread dissemination of such drugs — say, putting them in the public water supply — could make some crimes impossible by eliminating a potential offender's desire to commit them.

I want it to be near impossible for organised crime, pimps and punters to operate here and I want to be part of a society that rejects the idea that people are for sale.

IT'S the classic misguided fantasy of big-city dwellers everywhere: to flee the crowds, the astronomical rents, the impossible traffic, the crime, the takeout dinners in plastic containers and set down roots in some bucolic locale where the meals are home-cooked and life is never anything but Simple and Good.

"In Rome, it is impossible to talk about crime or to write a crime story without considering political power, or without considering the Vatican," says De Cataldo, who also wrote the novel Romanzo Criminale, another modern Mafia story that was turned into a film and later a TV series.

In reality, some crimes prove impossible to trace.

The combination of a wrong address and a wrong date, Smith said, made it impossible for the sex crimes detective to verify which officer might have been involved.