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Gladys Mitchell

  • “In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.”

    • Gladys Mitchell,
    • The Rising of the Moon
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  • “Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.”

  • “I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.”

Gladys Mitchell, English writer

(1901 - 1983)

Also wrote as Steven Hockaby.