Dying in the Wool Quotes

“Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.”
― Frances Brody, Dying in the Wool

“- 'He reckons you're one of these new women. You've deeply unsettled the female population by driving your car about and prying into other people's affairs.'
And here I was, chiding myself for being so entirely conventional. I rose in my own estimation.”
― Frances Brody, Dying in the Wool

“This interest in ragtime gives both of us the opportunity to be considered fashionably scandalous.”
― Frances Brody, Dying in the Wool