Crooked House

'People are more likely to kill those they love than those they hate. Only people you love can make your life impossible.

e have found the empty eye drop bottle,' continued the Chief Inspector. 'There were no fingerprints on it, which is strange - your father's fingerprints, at least, should have been there.

He must have taken the poison by accident,' he said. 'My father was nearly ninety and he couldn't see very well.'

'In a little crooked house...'

No one really conies out here except her.'

Everyone in the family wanted Brenda and Laurence to be guilty, but they didn't really believe it.

'The one thing that all murderers have in common,' he said finally, 'is that they are all vain. They are frightened of being caught, but they still want to show off about how clever they are. And a murderer wants to talk.'

'To talk?'

'Yes, because they're very lonely,'

People are more likely to kill those they love than those they hate. Only people you love can make your life impossible.

I wanted a home and someone to be nice to me

'I hate bindweed!' she said. 'It gets tangled up with the other plants and is impossible to get rid of.' She ground the weed viciously under her foot.