Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.