Death Around the Bend Quotes

“In the absence of my beloved and much-derided crime board,’ she said, ‘I’ve been reduced to writing things in my journal like some sort of medieval peasant.’ She”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“wondered if the Croquet Association might be persuaded to add ‘mischievous large dogs’ to its list of approved equipment.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“They sold all their waking hours to someone else in return for a few bob to pay for a roof over our heads and food on the table.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“everything”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“A dish brought to the table is just another dish of food if it can be seen as the footman carries it across the room. But when the dish is covered by a magnificent silver cloche and the footman sets it down, still covered, before whisking away the cover with a flourish and a billow of steam, even the most pedestrian of dishes can seem like a culinary masterpiece.”
― T.E. Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“had”
― T.E. Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“bimbled”
― T.E. Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“She’s as fragile and insecure as the next girl, deep down. That’s why she’s so spiky.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“If Lady Hardcastle were a man, she would have been labelled a bounder and a cad. Sadly, there were no equivalent terms for a lady.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“To poke one’s beak out of the door and catch someone in the act of slipping into someone else’s room would be the height of bad manners.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“Comings and goings in the middle of the night are nothing out of the ordinary. The unspoken rule is that as long as everyone is back in their own room by daybreak, everyone else will pretend that nothing untoward has happened.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“The sort of face that makes strangers take me into their confidence and throw caution and discretion to the wind by exposing me to the excruciatingly embarrassing details of their private affairs.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“If you want it, dear,’ she continued, ‘you should do it. I’ve never let the fear of people thinking me a ninny stop me from doing anything.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“They never had no time to call their own. They sold all their waking hours to someone else in return for a few bob to pay for a roof over our heads and food on the table.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“I wasn’t interested in getting money; I just wanted to have it. And I only wanted to have it so I didn’t have to think about it no more. Money wasn’t the important thing; it was never having to worry about it that I wanted.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“We might play fast and loose with the law on occasion, but we never break it.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“Elegant and beautiful, but strangely aggressive and frightening. Warrior goddesses.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“I hope everything goes smoothly this evening.’ ‘It’s certain not to, Miss Armstrong,’ he said. ‘But the test of our mettle is how well we cope with the inevitable disasters, I always say.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend

“Adds a bit of mystery and tension if I go missing for a few moments on a busy evening. Keeps everybody on their toes. “Where’s Mr Spinney got to?” they say. “Better make sure everything’s perfect – the old codger could be anywhere. Don’t want him to catch us shirking.” Works wonders.”
― T E Kinsey, Death Around the Bend