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.
Agatha ChristieIt is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Agatha ChristieIs there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?
Agatha ChristiePoirot said placidly, โOne does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this โ โ he tapped his egg-shaped head โ โthis, that functions!
Agatha Christie