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Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23) QUOTES

Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23) QUOTES

1 " We’re supposed to get a whiff as we walk past you, not when we drive past you at sixty miles an hour. "

― M.C. Beaton , Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23)

2 " I wondered if George talked to you about anyone he was afraid of?” “No. We did have a laugh, though. Always joking and laughing, that was my George.” “Your George?” Agatha’s eyes sharpened. “Were you close?” Not her, surely, thought Agatha. The woman hasn’t even got her own teeth! “Bit of a kiss and a cuddle,” said Matilda complacently. “But that’s fellows for you. Had to fight ’em off all my life.” My self-worth is lower than whale shit, thought Agatha bitterly. All the trouble and expense I went to to try to lure him. "

― M.C. Beaton , Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23)

3 " I didn’t know double jeopardy didn’t apply anymore,” said Charles. “There was this chap, Billy Dunlop,” said Simon, “who was charged in nineteen-eighty-nine with the murder of twenty-two-year-old Julie Hogg. Julie’s mother, Mrs. Ming, ran a fifteen-year campaign to change the double jeopardy rule and finally succeeded. In two thousand and six, Dunlop was charged with the murder again and found guilty. "

― M.C. Beaton , Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23)