Teaser Tuesdays: Cards on the Table

This week I'm taking my teaser lines from Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie. It's a Hercule Poirot mystery, and it also features his friend and occasional assistant sleuth, Ariadne Oliver. Mrs. Oliver is a writer of detective stories who was a sort of alter ego for Christie, and she's always been my favorite of Dame Agatha's characters. In this snippet (more than two lines, but they're good ones), Mrs. Oliver is explaining about her story-telling methods and how real-life crime differs from that depicted in her novels:

"What really matters is plenty of bodies! If the thing's getting a little dull, some more blood cheers it up. Somebody is going to tell something – and then they're killed first! That always goes down well. It comes in all my books – camouflaged different ways of course." (p.51)

Well, I'm only a few pages into this one and so far there's only been one murder. And things never really get dull in an Agatha Christie novel. But I'm sure the bodies will start piling up eventually.


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