Susan in NC’s Reviews > Murder in Blue > Status Update

“” To be a detective, you’ve got to have the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the indifference to discomfort of a Stoic, the hide of a rhinoceros and the constitution of a horse!”” Inspector Charlton

“”Was I, she asked, wondering where to live, now that I had come back to England? [Her husband had died], leaving Lizzie with a very small income and a very large house. Would I care to take the first floor, which I was to understand was comfortable and roomy, and let her “do for me” ? Her apple dumplings, she added, were still as good as they had been at Crawhurst. It was the dumplings that did it.”” Delightful!

“ “I’d rather be killed like that than mown down by a machine-gun. It’s more human. That’s the dreadful thing about war—the impersonality of it. I can understand a man killing a fellow ’e hates, but to murder a chap who might, if you’d met him in peace-time, ’ave become your best friend, just because what your politicians think doesn’t agree with what ’is politicians think—it’s all wrong.””