Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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