I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEYI had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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