British Quote by VIZ

“Magpie Murders pays quiet homage to Agatha Christie at least half a dozen times.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?”

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Christie loved books; and the attic next her own was full of them. To this store she found her way by a sort of…

— Louisa May Alcott

“The room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

“Agatha was a connoisseur of headaches, and was relieved at the transitory nature of this one.”

— Phil Foglio Kaja Foglio

“The part she hated most in mystery novels was where someone had a key piece of information but didn’t tell anyone. That was always…

— India Drummond

“He wondered how many lives had been snuffed out by that fart.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The scene had the innocence of all unsettling things that take place in silence.”

— Yuri Herrera

“Resist demonstrating that your worldliness was more fiction than fact,” he whispered. “You, Lady Agatha, in the common parlance with which you are so…

— Connie Brockway

“Really, Agatha, you might have told me.” "Told you what?” Mairelon said. “That my ward was once a street thief? I didn’t think it…

— Patricia C. Wrede

“He says that I'm as subtle as a fart at a funeral.”

— Martin Crosbie