lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.