All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.