Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. - Agatha Christie

Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.

I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not — how shall I express it? — a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain — I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.

It would be difficult Bland thought, to forget Hercule Poirot, and this not entirely for complimentary reasons.