Cytaty z książki «The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Убийство Роджера Экройда»

The Intelligence corps has proved a broken reed.

had felt towards Miss Gannett

‘What time would that be?’ ‘Just nine

They say the listener hears no good of himself, but that is not the case this time. To spare my blushes

Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September – a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o’clock on the morning of friday the 17th. There was nothing to be done. She had been dead some hours. It was just a few minutes after nine when I reached home once more. I opened the front door with my latchkey, and purposely delayed a few moments in the hall, hanging up my hat and the light overcoat that I had deemed a wise precaution against the chill of an early autumn morning. To tell the truth, I

Странно, но когда ваши тайные мысли, в которых вы не хотите признаться даже самому себе, высказывает кто-то другой, то у вас это вызывает мгновенное неприятие

that I had deemed a wise precaution against the chill of an early autumn morning