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She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.

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That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...

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[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us....more

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People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

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And anyway who the devil should I want to murder?""That would be a very good question," said Miss Marple. "I have not yet had the pleasure of sufficie...more

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Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out ...more

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I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is t...more

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When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is gone.

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But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

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Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

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the elephant can remember.

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The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or...more

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Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple