Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings Quotes

“Not a chance,’ said the doctor. If he had a bedside manner he evidently saved it for actual bedsides.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings

“Of course, when I was a girl, a housemaid’s face would have betrayed no emotion if the corpse were being dismembered on the carpet and she had to step over bits of it to reach the table, but times are changing”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings

“How thrilling!’ said Lydia. ‘And what has this life model done? Strangled a painter when he saw the results? I modelled in college and I wouldn’t cast judgement on him.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings

“I had hoped that cooking would prove to be her metier, since housekeeping, small talk and personal adornment were clearly of no interest, but the plates she set down, jostling them slightly to fit them onto a card table which was set up in the window for us, put those hopes back at naught again.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings

“A circus?’ I said, surprised at his enthusiasm. I had had a run-in with a circus five years before and to hear Hugh on the subject then, Caligula himself would have walked out and written to The Times.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings

“If Alec, a bachelor, had a companion tucked away somewhere handy, what could anyone make of it anyway? Unless she were married. If so, I could only hope that her husband was indeed a blackmailer and not a crack shot with a hunting rifle.”
― Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings