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“Her mean little mouth and dark suspicious eyes suggested that her mind was as tightly corseted as her body.”

“‘No doubt, no doubt. But love!’ Glatt was impatient. ‘My dear Dalgliesh! He was a singularly ugly old man of sixty-nine. She was an attractive girl twenty-one.’
Dalgliesh doubted whether love, that iconoclastic passion, was susceptible to this kind of simple arithmetic but he didn’t argue.’”

“And it seems entirely appropriate that the body should have been discovered in the library, that most fatal room in popular British fiction.”