The Quiche of Death Quotes

“The other diners studied him with the polite frozen smiles the English use for threatening behaviour.”
― M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death

“Ruth Rendell, one Colin Dexter, and one Colin Watson—and”
― M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death

“There were young women with babies and toddlers everywhere, pushing them in push-chairs, or strollers, as she had heard an American call those chariots which the mothers thrust against the legs of the childless with such aplomb. She had read an article once where a young mother had explained how she had suffered from acute agoraphobia when her child had grown out of the push-chair. It certainly seemed to give the mothers an aggressive edge, as, like so many Boadiceas, they propelled their chariots through the market crowd.”
― M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death

“She arrived in London’s Paddington Station and drew in great lungfuls of polluted air and felt herself come alive again.”
― M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death

“For the first time in her life, she knew loneliness, and it frightened her.”
― M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death

“everything she wanted in life: beauty, tranquillity and security”
― M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death

“There had been two nasty stories recently about corrupt policemen, but the newspapers knew there was nothing more the British liked to read about than a brave bobby.”
― M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death