Mrs Pargeter’s Pound of Flesh Quotes

“Mrs Pargeter had that rare quality in any surroundings of being always conspicuous, but never out of place.”
― Simon Brett, Mrs Pargeter’s Pound of Flesh

“Since Mrs Pargeter had always favoured pulling bushes up by the roots rather than beating about them, she again asked directly what his problem was or who was making his life difficult,”
― Simon Brett, Mrs Pargeter’s Pound of Flesh

“Indeed the fact that Lord Lucan continued to work without harassment as a publican in Dorking was a tribute to the expertise of Jack the Knife.”
― Simon Brett, Mrs Pargeter’s Pound of Flesh

“Mrs Pargeter reflected, not for the first time, that there is within the human psyche an infinite yearning for humiliation.”
― Simon Brett, Mrs Pargeter’s Pound of Flesh