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

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The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe perceived that Ladislaus Malinowski was one of Elv...more

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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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The two words expressed volumes.

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There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so d...more

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It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

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There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they ...more

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Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder.