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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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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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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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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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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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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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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Birth Daughter Face Farmer Name Summon Unknown Young
To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Delight Favorite Frivolous Grandchildren Hand Put Time Volume Waster
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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