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“You are not in sympathy with his views?”
“I was once, I suppose. But you must know that already … You check up pretty thoroughly on things like that, don’t you? Go back into the past, find out who was a fellow traveller, who was a party member, all that sort of thing.”

knew this would happen after she didn’t get to speak to the inspector

“Clocks?” I suggested hopefully. “Bogus insurance agents?”
“No, no,” Poirot shook his head.
“Blind women?”
“No, no, no. Do not confuse me.”
“I’m disappointed in you, Poirot,” I said. “I thought you’d give me the answer straight away.”

”My friend, Hercule Poirot, was sitting in his usual large, square armchair in front of the fireplace.”
there he is

“Where is your sister now, Mrs. Lawton?”
“I’ve no idea. Absolutely no idea at all.”
oop a schoolteacher sister

In fact her first inevitable remark was: “Now haven’t I told you a hundred times, you are not to bleed in the drawing room! Come straight into the kitchen and bleed there, where I can wipe over the linoleum.”
lol relatable

“Interesting,” I said. “You mean he just had some bogus cards printed with a bogus name, address and insurance company?”

“Is somebody there?”
“I—it’s—” The girl broke off as the woman came swiftly towards her round the back of the sofa.
And then she screamed.
“Don’t—don’t … you’ll tread on it—him … And he’s dead….”