Subject: Travel
Quote: There are some Americans who pass through Paris and emerge clothed as the Queen of Sheba, but Elizabeth Martin was not one of them. She was “doing Europe” in a stern, conscientious spirit. She had high ideas of culture and art and she was anxious to get as much as possible for her limited store of money.
Character: Omniscient narrator
Chapter/Story: “The Soul of the Croupier”
Book Title/Copyright: The Mysterious Mr. Quin, 1930
Subject: Travel
Quote: “Life is lived very much the same everywhere…. It wears different clothes—that’s all.”
Character: Mr. Satterthwaite
Chapter/Story: “The Soul of the Croupier”
Book Title/Copyright: The Mysterious Mr. Quin, 1930Subject: Travel
Quote: They stood there for a moment or two and then Tim spoke.
“An awful crowd as usual, I suppose,” he remarked disparagingly, indicating the disembarking passengers.
“They’re usually quite terrible, “ agreed Rosalie.
All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.
Character: Tim Allerton and Rosalie Otterbourne (with Hercule Poirot)
Chapter/Story: 1
Book Title/Copyright: Death on the Nile, 1938
