Gwen Moffat > Quotes

“Doug Spears; the rancher who lived at the mouth of Hell Roaring Creek. ‘So you’re the lady who found the body,’ he said. She hesitated, wondering which body he meant, how much they knew. ‘I mean the hiker’s body,’ he said. ‘Archie told us Jed Trotter got took by a bear too.’ She said: ‘I was talking to Otis Lenhart this afternoon; he says someone was shooting on Wapiti on Sunday.’ Spears smiled and shook his head. ‘It wasn’t me, ma’am.’ Zack Coons regarded her without expression, chewing solemnly.”
― Gwen Moffat, Grizzly Trail

“Gossip’s not amusement, Uncle Zeke.’ Arabella was grave. ‘It’s an essential part of social life.’ ‘Why?’ ‘It keeps up the moral values of a community by picking out the deviants and criticising their behaviour.”
― Gwen Moffat, Miss Pink Investigates: Part One

“With a tea tray on a chair beside her Miss Pink lay in a hot bath like a fox with vermin, only her mask projecting above the surface and surrounded, not by drowning fleas but a steaming cloud of Lanvin’s Arpège.”
― Gwen Moffat, A Short Time to Live

“He wore a black hat and a drooping moustache. His face was angular but the eyes, like the eyes of most cowhands, were bored. It occurred to Miss Pink, acknowledging the introductions with grace, that the bored eyes went with the myth, as an expression of contempt went with the gangster myth.”
― Gwen Moffat, Grizzly Trail