“You know how these chaps can be. They promise to put everything in its place, but then you move in and find that they’ve put the aspidistra in the bedroom and the piano in the kitchen.” — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“In the absence of my beloved and much-derided crime board,’ she said, ‘I’ve been reduced to writing things in my journal like some sort… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure I’d have put Charles Dickens next to Isaac Newton except at a dinner party, and then only if Nellie Melba hadn’t… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“They sold all their waking hours to someone else in return for a few bob to pay for a roof over our heads and… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“What would I do without you?’ I thought for a moment. ‘Starve to death, my lady. In the dark.” — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Are you familiar with the Eastern concept of karma?’ ‘I’ve heard of it, yes. An old sergeant of mine when I was new to… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“You know how these chaps can be. They promise to put everything in its place, but then you move in and find that they’ve… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“His quiet confidence in his authority and abilities left him free to treat everyone around him with calm respect.” — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“To tell you the truth,’ said Lady Hardcastle, ‘I’ve never quite understood the attraction of snow. It’s beautiful for the first hour or so,… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“It’s abductive reasoning, not deductive. Working from observation to theory is abduction, not deduction.” — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Once we were on the road and safely out of earshot she said, ‘Hot, sweet tea, indeed! We shall have a bracing brandy and… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
“And in the centre of the clearing, my dear Florence,’ she was saying, without apparently having broken her conversational stride, ‘we have . .… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
