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Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off because they were not his own eyebrows, but false on...more

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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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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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Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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

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For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs t...more

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It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating th...more

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The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald—or Arthur—or whatever his name was—had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a...more

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I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

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At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather...more