The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3)

by Agatha Christie

Dreams often do seem wonderfully vivid when you first wake up. You feel quite sure they’re true.”

for a minute her good-natured blue eyes were hard and sharp; she was the female fighting for existence

Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie and Dickson Carr and H. C. Bailey.

But Time, as my dear mother used to say, is a great healer.

It’s a matter of selection and of patience—but we shall find out the truth in the end, never you fear.”

So, as I said at the beginning where are we?” “Nowhere, sir,”

She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past? After all, there’s a time for everything. You can’t sit in the house with the blinds down forever.

“You don’t think—” “I don’t know what I think,”

Oh well, it’s life, I suppose. Excuse today’s hard-luck story!”