The Man With a Load of Mischief Quotes

“And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.”
― Martha Grimes, The Man With a Load of Mischief

“Nellie does for Dick Scroggs now and then, and no better than she should be —”
― Martha Grimes, The Man with a Load of Mischief

“a cuppa being the true Englishman’s cure for everything,”
― Martha Grimes, The Man with a Load of Mischief

“tweed”
― Martha Grimes, The Man with a Load of Mischief

“They stood now in the low, dimly lit hall, hung about with sporting prints and stuffed birds, his aunt and Simon Matchett making small talk smaller.”
― Martha Grimes, The Man with a Load of Mischief

“Denzil Smith was not a particularly pious man, but he was a curious one, which made him excellent company for Lady Agatha Ardry. They were dependent on one another in the mindless way of two gibbons dedicated to picking fleas off one another’s fur.”
― Martha Grimes, The Man with a Load of Mischief