Closed Casket (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #2)

by Sophie Hannah

“That’s why she needs to shout and you don’t.” It’s the weakest as have to shout the loudest, make others suffer, he says.’

One can, you see, insist that the truth is true in a way that makes it appear a lie.’

‘Well … that depends on your definition of knowledge.’

‘Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon.’

I’m afraid I don’t write for dimwits and nor will I, ever. I write for those capable of rising to an intellectual

challenge.

Please try to see: he did not lie to you, or to me, or to anybody in particular. He simply … altered the truth, because he felt more comfortable doing so.