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I think there’s something wonderful and reassuring about the idea that in the rush of modern life people will still come together and sit for an hour in a theatre, a gymnasium or a giant tent simply out of a love of books and reading.
“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.”
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“The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones’ wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.”
― Mrs. McGinty's Dead
― Mrs. McGinty's Dead
“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.”
― This House of Grief
― This House of Grief
“It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapter Sixteen.”
― Smallbone Deceased
― Smallbone Deceased
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Adult Fiction, Chick-lit, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, cozy-mystery, futuristic-romance, space-opera, speculative-fiction, canada, british-literature, asia, france, russia, international, dystopia, mystery-thriller, psychological-thriller, near-future, apocalyptic, india, post-apocalyptic, northern-africa, italy, novels, hard-science-fiction, climate-change-fiction, holiday, climate-change, golden-age-mystery, murder-mystery, whodunit, amateur-sleuth, winter mystery, christmas mystery, anthology, short stories, short fiction, books-about-books, and christmas
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