“In fact,' said Poirot, 'she stabbed him in the dark, not realising that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly and gave it the requisite dent.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
― Murder on the Orient Express
“Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.”
― Le Chien des Baskerville
― Le Chien des Baskerville
“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
― Murder on the Orient Express
“En voiture, Monsieur,’ said the Wagon Lit conductor.”
― Murder on the Orient Express
― Murder on the Orient Express
“I did not tell you that Helena Andrenyi was Mrs. Armstrong’s sister?”
― Murder on the Orient Express
― Murder on the Orient Express
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