“I’m trying to imagine motives for crime suitable for everyone in the hotel. It’s quite entertaining. Simon Doyle, for instance?” Poirot said, smiling: “A very simple crime—a direct shortcut to his objective. No subtlety about it.” “And therefore very easily detected?” “Yes; he would not be ingenious.” “And Linnet?” “That would be like the Queen in your Alice in Wonderland, ‘Off with her head.’”
