Quotes About Intrigue

Poirot said: "Who could have murdered him?" Japp said: "The answer to that is—almost anybody!

Her questions came with a kind of eagerness. The thought flashed across his mind that she must be very bored.

Agatha Christie

The typists might have been so many blackbeetles.

Poor Emily was never murdered until he came along.

El ansia de matar estaba en su corazón. Se deslizó por sus dedos y murió en ondas sonoras.

How can it be that a set of the shoulders, the rhythm of a stride, the shadow of a strand of hair falling on a forehead can cause the tides of the heart to ebb and to flow?

How can it be that a set of shoulders, the rhythm of a stride, the shadow of a strand of hair falling on a forehead can cause the tides of the heart to ebb and to flow?

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

wanted to be like her, and I would stop at nothing. Nothing at all, including sneaking into her closet and wearing her clothes like some tiny, creepy serial killer.

pajamas. He stumbled a little, the two men jerked him upright and his glasses went askew. They stopped at the back of the Stolypin car, and one of the men let him go in order to open the door. Instinctively, he adjusted his glasses. Turned his head. For a bare instant, he stared at Khristo. His face appeared to have somehow shrunk, and his eyes looked enormous. Then the two

Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.

on chess] He had learned the moves, back in Vidin, from Levitzky the tailor, who called it "the Russian game." Thus, the old man pointed out, the weak were sacrificed. The castles, fortresses, were obvious and basic; the bishops moved obliquely; the knights—an officer class—sought power in devious ways; the queen, second-in-command, was pure aggression; and the king, heart of it all, a helpless target, dependent totally on his forces for survival.

In the early dusk of winter, Mercier climbed into an Opel with German plates. The young driver called himself Stefan and said he was from an emigre family that had settled in Besancon. 'In thirty-three,' he added. 'The minute Hitler took power, my father got the suitcases down. He was a socialist politicians, and he knew what was coming. Then, after we settled in France, the people you work for showed up right away, they've kept me busy ever since.

A wide streak of blood trailed from the entrance of the tomb to Hideki's father, and Hideki's heart lurched.

I stared at Emily Reed as the truck churned slowly toward the center of the field. She had her back to me now, talking to the camera. Reporting on the sudden, alarming interruption to the most-watched sporting event in America. The interruption she herself had planned. I had to do something. Tell someone. Stop her. The Black Widow was right there, in the lower section of the stadium, not a hundred feet from me!

The woman, early thirties with frosted brown hair,

answered in a low, breathless voice.

Agent Vail. I'm in position, thirty feet from the bank's entrance. I've got a visual on three well-armed men dressed in black clothing, wearing

What would I tell people? That I work in the Defense against the Dark Arts Division?" "I have another name in mind: Special Cases Unit.

When she was not persuading him that he was, like all men without a woman in their lives, utterly helpless, she indulged in an unending tide of gossip. This mainly concerned people her son had never heard of, nor, on the strength of their entire life histories, had any wish for further acquaintance.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.