Joyce’s Reviews > The Murder at the Vicarage > Status Update

Please do give my love to Griselda and tell her not to worry too much about those books [I saw her buying yesterday], for we cannot give our children what we ourselves do not already have.

One’s belief, even so strong that it amounts to
knowledge, is not the same as proof. And unless one has an explanation that covers all the facts, one cannot proceed with conviction.

That confounded woman! She couldn’t know more about this case if she committed the murder herself!

“I help others. It’s my calling.”

But who helps the vicar when he needs help?

A killer doesn’t always use the weapon you would expect him to.

Lettice says I’m her BFF.

What’s that?

Backup future fiancé.

Not just death … but death in life like you would see in a stagnant pond of a town like this one.

Stagnant? I dare say you wouldn’t find more life than under the microscope in a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

I don’t take inventory of my personal possessions every day.

Truculent: belligerent; aggressively defiant

I believe murder is a case for a doctor, not for a policeman or a clergyman.