The Santa Klaus Murder Quotes

“He studied his role at each stage of his life and assumed the appropriate air. But he never bothered to study how to be the father of this family; I suppose he thinks we ought all to act our parts as members of the family of his imagination.”
― Mavis Doriel Hay, The Santa Klaus Murder

“If you go into a room where people are having an intimate conversation and they have to change the tone of it suddenly because you are there, you can always feel something in the atmosphere. A suspense; and a sort of tingling; as if their personalities had not got back properly into their shells of convention.”
― Mavis Doriel Hay, The Santa Klaus Murder

“I nearly went off the deep end at that. The house seemed to be full of lunatics who never gave away anything they knew until it was just too late. But I did manage to tell the fool to explain himself.”
― Mavis Doriel Hay, The Santa Klaus Murder

“I have often found that the best way to persuade anyone to do something they suspect is to explain that they really need not do it.”
― Mavis Doriel Hay, The Santa Klaus Murder