“Once we were on the road and safely out of earshot she said, ‘Hot, sweet tea, indeed! We shall have a bracing brandy and the devil take the blessed tea.’ We set off for home.” — 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
