"But if you were investigating a crime," said Lady Swaffham, "you'd have
to begin by the usual things, I suppose—finding out what the person had
been doing, and who'd been to call, and looking for a motive, wouldn't
you?"
"Oh, yes," said Lord Peter, "but most of us have such dozens of motives
for murderin' all sorts of inoffensive people. There's lots of people
I'd like to murder, wouldn't you?"
"Heaps," said Lady Swaffham. "There's that dreadful—perhaps I'd better
not say it, though, for fear you should remember it later on."
"Well, I wouldn't if I were you," said Peter,
amiably. "You never know. It'd be beastly awkward if the person died suddenly to-morrow."
- Dorothy Sayers, Whose Body?
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