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The Sittaford Mystery

by Agatha Christie

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read in September 2019

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Clara’s Quotes

“I’m good at tailing people. I was an intelligence officer during World War I. My code name was the Crab." - Roderick Childermass”
― John Bellairs, The Curse of the Blue Figurine

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“OH? I don't need to dwell on the details? What, is this not an 'integral part of the historical record' or whatever such nonsense you like to natter about? YOU'RE blushing? How do you think I felt being stared at by the glass eyes of a dozen long-dead creatures and surrounded by stone pen*ses all day?”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

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“Of course she did not like the police,” said Marcus. “Nobody likes the police. I do not like the police. But I have to stand well with them because of my hotel.”
― Agatha Christie, They Came to Baghdad

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“Their mother, Lady Mary, had been born the youngest daughter of the Early of Elmsley but had defied the conventions of the ton by marrying a freedman of Senegalese birth whom she had met through her work with the abolition. And whereas in the enlightened twenty-first century the marriage of a British aristocrat to a Person of Colour is a wholly unremarkable thing that results in no hostility whatsoever, in the bad old days of the 1800s it caused quite the scandal.

Isn't it wonderful to know how far your species has come?”
― Alexis Hall, Confounding Oaths

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“She was the exact image of the Wicked Fairy who had terrorised her childish dreams. To begin with, she was only four foot eight or nine. It was a child's stature but not a childish face. The cheeks were pendulous and the nose curved. The eyes were very keen and black. And black too was the elaborately dressed hair—coal black without a grey hair to soften it. It lay above the peering brow in elaborate folds and scallops, tight, neat, and extraordinarily artificial. She wore a curious black velvet garment pinned in front with an elaborate and apparently very valuable diamond brooch.”
― Patricia Wentworth, The Girl in the Cellar

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