Subject: Earwigs
Quote: “Oh, definitely a dreary woman. Rather like an earwig. She’s a devoted mother. So are earwigs, I believe.”
Character: Charles Arundell
Chapter/Story: 14
Book Title/Copyright: Poirot Loses a Client, 1937
Quote: “A kind of natural history fact, I’ve always understood.”
“Yes—yes. Like earwigs making good mothers.”
“Do they indeed, sir? Now that’s a fact I didn’t know.”
Character: Mr. Totman and Edmund Swettenham
Chapter/Story: Epilogue
Book Title/Copyright: A Murder is Announced, 1950
