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Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles
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“Daniel recalled the bishop saying the same thing, that the higher you rise in an organisation, the further you are from what you need to know.”
Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong
“But what he liked most of all about dogs was their innocence of human motives, the self-promoting stratagems and egotism, their affection unstaled by familiarity and reciprocity. This is why the queen surrounds herself with corgis, he sometimes thought: love without deference.”
Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong
“once,”
Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong
“higher you rise in an organisation, the further you are from what you need to know.”
Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong
“was often the last to know, and when he finally did discover who was doing what with whom it was usually too late to do anything but deal with the damage.”
Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong
“But what he liked most of all about dogs was their innocence of human motives, the self-promoting stratagems and egotism, their affection unstaled by familiarity and reciprocity.”
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“he’s”
Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong
“in my Father’s house there are many mansions’;”
Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong
“Bob had not forgotten it, and took up the fork again, the commando tattoo blue and blurry on his forearm now, and started to turn the earth.”
Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong