Money in the Morgue Quotes

“I become facetious when perplexed. Right now I am perplex’d in the extreme.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Money in the Morgue

“Human nature being what it is, sometimes the company of other people is all the irritant required to form a pearl of revelation”
― Ngaio Marsh, Money in the Morgue

“Struck down by the kind of nervous distress known only to the most modern of artists and then only those with a private income”
― Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue

“A certain style of modern detective fiction might show our hero rushing to a terribly clever supposition by page sixteen and spending the rest of the novel proving himself right, but for your long-suffering actual policeman there is merely painstaking elimination and solid detective work, which means questioning every possible suspect.”
― Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue

“Bix looked at Alleyn with all the enthusiasm of a smart Labrador offered the chance of a long walk and a good many rabbits”
― Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue