I like a good detective story,' he said. 'But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.
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Zum Autor"The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."
"There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash."
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
"The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple."
"The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal."
"Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind."