Debra Gearon

“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.”
“Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
“Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“But, he duly ate the peanut and whoosh!”
― Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

“My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“Ab has just walked in, mewing- it must be tea-time; that cat has a clock in his stomach.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle