Death at Crane's Court Quotes

“What a fine thing to be as rude as that with such convictions.”
― Eilís Dillon, Death at Crane's Court: An Irish Mystery

“Mike wished Mr. Burden had chosen another time to be murdered. He was beginning to see that the hour of dressing for dinner might have been expressly designed for persons who need a quiet spell for the commission of crime.”
― Eilís Dillon, Death at Crane's Court: An Irish Mystery

“I try not to look like a university man here....My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life of the bourgeoisie. A sign, moreover, that a man has to earn his own living.”
― Eilis Dillon, Death at Crane's Court: An Irish Mystery