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

by Agatha Christie

Do you like detective stories? I do. I read them all, and I’ve got autographs from Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie and Dickson Carr and H. C. Bailey. Will the murder be in the papers?”

Agatha Christie wrote a character who has her own autograph! Haha!

Gentlemen so easily feel neglected.

“I must say,” said Sir Henry ruefully, “that I dislike the way you reduce us all to a General Common Denominator.” Miss Marple shook her head sadly. “Human nature is very much the same anywhere, Sir Henry.”

Colonel Bantry, like nearly all retired military men, is really abnormally sensitive. He reacts very quickly to public opinion.

human beings are so much more vulnerable and sensitive than anyone thinks,

“Gentlemen,” she said with her old-maid’s way of referring to the opposite sex as though it were a species of wild animal, “are frequently not as levelheaded as they seem.”

As I see it, he’s either a very clever gentleman pretending to be a silly ass, or else—well, he is a silly ass.”