Clue+Quotes

Clue/Hint Quotes

 * 1) "Rudi Sherz. Swiss nationality. Employed at the Royal Spa Hotel, Mendenham Wells, as a receptionist"- Craddock (30).
 * 2) "Preliminary medical report. The revolver was discharged at close range-singeing"- Rydesdale (32).
 * 3) "I want you to answer this very carefully, Miss Simmons. Did he hold it steady or did he move it about?"- Craddock (47).
 * 4) "He moved it,' she said slowly. 'Like a spotlight in a dance hall. It was full in my eyes and then it went on round the room and then the shots came. Two shots" - Miss Simmons (47)
 * 5) "Have you any idea as to whether the third shot was suicide or an accident?"- Craddock (61).
 * 6) "I've no idea at all. The man seemed to swerve round very suddenly and then crumple up and fall"- Mrs. Swettenham (62).
 * 7) "-people in the dark. People in the dark are quite different, aren't they?"- Mrs. Harmon (66).
 * 8) "This Miss Bunner...she's an utterly unreliable witness. Highly suggestible...but interesting thing is that this is quite her own theory..everyone else negatives it..."- Chief Constable and Craddock (69).
 * 9) "He may have told her who it was...Who it was who put him up to it, I mean"- Miss Marple (73).
 * 10) "Here's a personable young man--who filches a little but here and a little bit there...suddenly, he goes off with a revolver, holds up a roomful of people...he wasn't that kind of person. It doesn't make any sense"- Miss Marple (73).
 * 11) "Are you suggesting that he was persuaded by someone to go about and take pot shots at a roomful of people?"- Rydesdale (76).
 * 12) "He was paid for doing it, of course"- Miss Marple (76).
 * 13) "And he said not to tell anyone, but there was to be a party somewhere and he was to stage a sham holdup"- Myrna Harris (77).
 * 14) "...it wasn't Sherz's revolver and certainly nobody so far has been able to say that Scherz ever had a revolver"- Craddock (79).
 * 15) He fought---X from outside? No---X was here-in this house---X was in the drawing-room that night- Craddock (88).
 * 16) "Simply that one day---possibly quite soon---I may be a very rich woman"- Miss Blacklock (90).
 * 17) "Of course, if that door could open, too, someone might have gone out of here in the dark and done the holdup..."- Bunch Harmon (101).
 * 18) "A revolver, a flashlight and a door to hold open--- a bit too much, isn't it?"- Miss Hinchliffe (112).
 * 19) "that you want to ask about the money? Randall left it all to go to Blackie after my death"- Mrs. Goedler (131).
 * 20) "Nevertheless, Mr. Goedler left his estate to her children in the event of Miss Blacklock predeceasing you?"- Craddock (134).
 * 21) Craddock thought, Here's a brother and sister brought up somewhere in Europe. Sonia Goedler was a rich woman at the time of her marriage, but money in Europe hasn't remained money. Queer things have happened to money during these war years. And so there are two young people, the son and daughter of a man who had a criminal record. Suppose they came to England, more or less penniless? What would they do? Find out about any rich relatives. Their uncle, a man of vast fortune, is dead. Possibly the first thing they'd do would be to look up that uncle's will. See if by any chance money had been left to them or to their mother. So they go to Somerset House and learn the contents of his will, and then, perhaps, they learn of the existence of Miss Letitia Blacklock. Then they make inquiries about Randall Goedler's widow. She's an invalid, living up in Scotland, and they find out she hasn't long to live. If this Letitia Blacklock dies before her, they will come into a vast fortune. What then?- Craddock (136).
 * 22) Craddock thought, They wouldn't go to Scotland. They'd find out where Letitia Blacklock is living now. And they'd go there-- but not as themselves...They'd go together-- or separately? Emma...I wonder...Pip and Emma...I'll eat my hat if Pip, or Emma, or both of them, aren't in Chipping Cleghorn now- Craddock (136).
 * 23) "'Yes, there's Patrick and Julia.' The odd note in Miss Blacklock's voice was still there."- Miss Blacklock (143).
 * 24) "It's Dora Bunner. She wanted some aspirin. Apparently she took some from a bottle beside Letitia Blacklock's bed. There were only a few tablets left in the bottle. She took two and left one. The doctor's got that one and is sending it to be analyzed. He says it's definitely not aspirin"- Rydesdale (149).
 * 25) Dora Bunner had said something about the lamp being one of a pair. Of course--a shepherd and a shepherdess. And it had been the shepherdess on the day of the holdup--and the next morning it had been the other lamp--the lamp that was here now, the shepherd. The lamps had been changed over during the night (152).
 * 26) You could get away with a great deal if you had enough audacity... (153).
 * 27) Her hand went up to the choker of false pearls she was wearing. Craddock thought how incongruous it looked with her tweed coat and skirt (163).
 * 28) "And it's made a burn on the table, too...It's nothing, dear. Just something I saw quite suddenly which I ought to have seen before..."- Bunch and Miss Marple (172).
 * 29) "It's perfectly simple. Our original premises were quite right. You can't hold open a door, wave a flashlight and shoot with a revolver all at the same time. We kept in the revolver and the flashlight and cut out the door. Well, we were wrong. It was the revolver we ought to have cut out"- Miss Hinchliffe (173).
 * 30) "But listen, Hinch, I must tell you--...but, Hinch, she wasn't there..."- Miss Murgatroyd (177).
 * 31) My pearls--my //pearls//--' The agony in her voice was so acute that they all looked at her in astonishment. She turned, her hand to her throat, and rushed sobbing out of the room"- Miss Blacklock (189).