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Book cover for The Birthday Murders (Lieutenant Tuck, #4)

The Birthday Murders (Lieutenant Tuck, #4) by Lange Lewis

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Once, when Victoria introduced the subject of a strike which was filling the newspapers, there was a profound silence. Then Aunt Jessie spoke for them all when she said, reasonably and gently, “These people don’t know what real tragedy is. ...more

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“You do not seem to appreciate the intensity of Julia’s feelings towards the Department of Inland Revenue. She is under the impression that it is a vast conspiracy having as its sole objective her physical, mental and financial ruin.”
― Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

tags: inland-revenue, taxes

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“The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones’ wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

tags: bereaved, death-of-a-loved-one

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“Sometimes, indeed, he went so far as to visualise himself as an archangel, a rotund St. Michael, armed with the sword of Dymond and defended by the shield of Green, protecting the helpless from the assault of the massed powers of Darkness, those arch-fiends, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.”
― Martin Edwards Michael Gilbert

tags: taxes

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“He was a lean, contained-looking man, with a clipped grey beard and a mouth that cut across his face on a severe slant, like that of someone who spent his days listening to bullshit.”
― Helen Garner, This House of Grief

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“When life gives you lemons, ask for chocolate instead!”
― Nashita

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