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If I didn’t start it so late I’d have finished this in one sitting. Absolutely hysterical while staying in the detective frame of genre. I could see Hitchcock or even Mel Brooks (!) having a go at this material.

Es demasiado bueno! Hace rato no abría tanto la boca de asombro

They are all so snarky 😂 "“Someone has shot at us.”
“It need not interrupt conversation,” said the stoic Ratcliffe. “Pray resume your remarks, Colonel. You were talking, I think, about the plain people of a peaceable French town.”

Omgsh brill 😂 "Perhaps if you were to remove the remains of your original forehead and some portion of what was once your chin, your meaning would become clearer."

LOL “I shall approach. Before taking off his hat, I shall take off my own. I shall say, ‘The Marquis de Saint Eustache, I believe.’ He will say, ‘The celebrated Mr. Syme, I presume.’ He will say in the most exquisite French, ‘How are you?’ I shall reply in the most exquisite Cockney, ‘Oh, just the Syme—’”

“just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.”