Mrs, Presumed Dead Quotes

“Why was it, Mrs Pargeter mused, that the only people who said they were the last ones to spread gossip were always such arrant gossip-mongers?”
― Simon Brett, Mrs, Presumed Dead

“But, goodness me, poor Theresa! What a dreadful thing to happen in Smithy’s Loam!’ ‘Or anywhere,’ Mrs Pargeter observed mildly. She knew that its residents tended to see Smithy’s Loam as the centre of the universe, but murder did remain a relatively offensive crime even in other parts of the world.”
― Simon Brett, Mrs, Presumed Dead

“But, goodness me, poor Theresa! What a dreadful thing to happen in Smithy’s Loam!’ ‘Or anywhere,’ Mrs Pargeter observed mildly.”
― Simon Brett, Mrs, Presumed Dead

“She remembered her late husband’s precepts about the police. What they did not know, generally speaking, they did not need to know. Ignorance in the Police Force, he had always maintained, was a natural state, and who are we, he would ask with a disarming shrug of his shoulders, to interfere with nature?”
― Simon Brett, Mrs, Presumed Dead