As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.