Helena Dixon > Quotes

“Their empire is crumbling around them and, from my experience, there is no loyalty amongst thieves and villains”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at Elm House

“If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet, Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street, Them that ask no questions isn’t told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark – Brandy for the Parson, ’Baccy for the Clerk. Laces for a lady; letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! A Smuggler’s Song – Rudyard Kipling”
― Helena Dixon, The Seaside Murders

“Kitty could see sincerity mingled with trepidation in his gaze and she knew for certain that he did indeed see her as his equal, however much he might struggle with the need to look after her”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Wedding

“panelled”
― Helena Dixon, Murder on Board

“TT races,”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at Enderley Hall

“Murder on the Cornish Coast!”
― Helena Dixon, Murder in New York

“It was all very well Kitty demanding her right to determine her own destiny and actions. She kept reminding him that she was a modern, independent woman, but not when it meant that those who cared about her, loved her, had to watch and worry”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Wedding

“her hand resting on his arm.”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Playhouse

“aspidistra plant in a brass pot. Matt’s”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Playhouse

“I'm starting to wonder how Inspector Lewis ever became a policeman let alone an inspector after our meeting with Mr Whitlock. I'm starting to think he could not investigate his way out of a paper bag”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Wedding

“carpet bag to the lobby. She was”
― Helena Dixon, Murder on the Dance Floor

“Kitty reflected that her grandmother had warned her on more than one occasion that eavesdroppers seldom heard good of themselves.”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Wedding

“He had seen too many deaths in the suffocating, muddy trenches of the battlefield when the shoring had failed. He had witnessed the loss of men and horses buried under the sticky mud. Even now, so many years later, he would occasionally awake from a nightmare to discover he had wrecked the room in his sleep or walked about the house”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Wedding

“Kitty crouched down to keep as low as possible behind the rough stone wall which formed the edge of the first tier of the garden. The scent of damp earth tickled her cold nose”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at Elm House

“It was just sat in a bank vault gathering dust to be brought out once in a blue moon.”
― Helena Dixon, Murder on Board

“Kitty!' His words fell on deaf ears. She was already in pursuit of her quarry”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at Elm House

“triggered”
― Helena Dixon, Murder in the Belltower

“Lord Woodcomb has made me aware of your reputation, Miss Underhay, as some kind of amateur sleuth. Whatever they may tolerate in Devon, I can assure you it is not the same here in Yorkshire. I would suggest you leave any idea of investigating to the professionals”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Wedding

“but it had not been unsurprising.”
― Helena Dixon, Murder on Board

“The waterfront in Exeter was as familiar to Hammett as the back of his own hand and a boat receiving parcels there would be unlikely to attract much notice. It also meant Hammett could disappear into one of the many tunnels or escape routes like a rat up a drainpipe”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at Elm House

“She kept her eyes closed as she listened and tried to orientate herself. There was a faint click of a door latch and the eerie sensation that she was no longer alone”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at Elm House

“pinned”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Dolphin Hotel

“Well, I blame Matt. I never used to keep tripping over bodies until I met him.' Kitty laughed.”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Wedding

“door”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at Midwinter Farm

“Kitty's independence and forthright views didn't sit well with his parents' more traditional views of marriage and a woman's place in society”
― Helena Dixon, Murder at the Wedding