Five Found Dead Quotes

“I was not so much listening as overhearing.” “What’s the difference?” “The first is very rude, the second can’t be helped.”
― Sulari Gentill, Five Found Dead

“It’s like the old story is a character in the new one.”
― Sulari Gentill, Five Found Dead

“Murderers? On the Orient Express?” Joe regards her with mock alarm. “Whoever heard of such a thing?”
― Sulari Gentill, Five Found Dead

“A nickname says as much about you being a good sport as anything else…the worse the name, the easier the bloke.”
― Sulari Gentill, Five Found Dead

“I hope that a retired French policeman will suffice. We are not as famous, but much more handsome.”
― Sulari Gentill, Five Found Dead

“And Wheelbarrow tried to—”
“Wheelbarrow?” Duplantier asks.
“Just a nickname, mate; his real name was Jake, I think.”
“Why do you call him Wheelbarrow?”
“He needed to be pushed to work.”

“Brake Pad was so called because he wore out easily and then started to squeal, and London Fog— he wasn’t really English, just never lifted.”

“And what did they call you?” Abigay inquires archly. Joe laughs. “Blister.”
“Why?”
“Because I’d appear when the hard work was done.”
― Sulari Gentill, Five Found Dead