The Mystery of Three Quarters
Sophie Hannah
"'I must say, I was rather disappointed,’ McCrodden went on. ‘The famous Hercule Poirot, allowing himself to be used for such frivolities.'"
"'I must say, I was rather disappointed,’ McCrodden went on. ‘The famous Hercule Poirot, allowing himself to be used for such frivolities.'"
“Don’t talk to the police. Don’t sign a statement. Tell them you can’t remember anything.”
"The courier rode out of camp in the yellow haze of a dust cloud."
"He looked somewhat like my image of Satan: wild black hair, thin, waxed mustache, spade-shaped patch of hair on his chin."
"Home from World Pizza I sat in front of the west-facing window in my upstairs office and looked out at my rancho."
"I had been here before. I had seen the eyes of someone I loved shift towards my sister."
"He told them there was someone who could find the girl: an ex-cop."
"Looking back over the somewhat dizzying landscape of my life, I would say that before the events that turned it upside down, I was an unremarkable man, bordering on the dull."
"He hated going to bed without a drink because it made him sleep in."
"Machiavelli has been circling us for too long, and it’s time that we finished him off, for good."



