Crime Quotations Flashcards
Chapter 1: Gender Stereotypes
Surely if a woman committed a crime like murder…
she’d be sufficiently cold-blooded…’
-Sheppard
Chapter 1: Secrets
Therefore I have got into the habit of…
continually withholding all information possible from my sister
–Sheppard
Chapter 2: Detective Process
Then I suddenly remembered…
that I had seen her…
-Sheppard
Chapter 2: Clues & Red Herrings
But, strangely enough,
she didn’t seem interested in veronal.
– Sheppard about Miss Russell
Chapter 3: Gender Stereotypes
A man who is capable of shutting up Caroline and
sending her, like the Queen of Sheba, empty away…
must be something of a personality.
-Sheppard
Chapter 3: Motive
‘I shall be a very rich man…
when the old fellow pops off.’
– Ralph
Chapter 3: Secrets
‘One prefers…
to remain incognito’
-Poirot
Chapter 3: Clues & Red Herrings
Then she declined…
the tempting red herring.
-Sheppard about Caroline
Chapter 3: Suspects
He was silent a minute and then repeated in a slightly different tone of voice:..
‘Yes - I’ve got to play a lone hand…’
– Ralph
Chapter 4: Detective Process
Then I lifted the lid…
to scrutinize the contents more closely.
-Sheppard
Chapter 4: Gender Stereotypes
A simple…
straightforward English girl.
-Sheppard about Flora
Chapter 4: Secrets
‘It was meant for…
my eyes, and my eyes only.’
– Ackroyd
Chapter 4: Suspects
He looked embarrassed…
and it occurred to me that he might have been listening at the door.
–Sheppard about Parker
Chapter 5: Detective Process
‘No, thanks…
I’ll do my own inquiring.’
– the inspector
Chapter 5: Gender Stereotypes
Flora raised her hand to her throat,…
gave a little cry, and I hurried to catch her as she fell.
