Agatha Christie - Closing lines

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1. “I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.” Elephants Can Remember Third Girl The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Murder on the Orient Express

2. “Oh, dear, it’s quite true what Dr. Reilly said. How does one stop writing? If I could find a really good telling phrase... Like the one M. Poirot used. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate… Something like that.” Murder in Mesopotamia Murder in the Mews Murder in Retrospect Halloween Party

3. “The tear rose in Miss Marple’s eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger – anger against a heartless killer. And then, displacing both these emotions, there came a surge of triumph – the triumph some specialist might feel who has successfully reconstructed an extinct animal from a fragment of jawbone and a couple of teeth.” Murder at the Vicarage Sleeping Murder A Murder is Announced A Pocket Full of Rye

4. “‘Nothing’, I said sadly. ‘They are two delightful women!’ ‘And neither of them is for you?’ finished Poirot. ‘Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows? And then _____’ ” The Mysterious Affair at Styles Peril at End House Murder on the Links The ABC Murders

5. “In my end is my beginning – that’s what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think…” Remembered Death Endless Night The Hound of Death Death Comes As the End

6. “‘Which of ’em is she going to choose?’ said Dermot Craddock. ‘Don’t you know?’ said Miss Marple. ‘No, I don’t.’ said Craddock. ‘Do you?’ ‘Oh, yes, I think so,’ said Miss Marple. And she twinkled at him.” The Body in the Library The Tuesday Club Murders Murder at the Vicarage 4.50 from Paddington

7. “He said gently as he came towards her: ‘Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird – struggling to escape. You’ll never escape now….’ She said : ‘I shall never want to escape.’” The Man in the Brown Suit The Seven Dials Mystery Towards Zero The Pale Horse

8. “‘Well,’ said Miss Marple. ‘Are you going to let her get away with it?’ There was a pause, then Father brought down his fist with a crash on the table. ‘No’, he roared – ‘No, by God I’m not!’ Miss Marple nodded her head slowly and gravely. ‘May God have mercy on her soul,’ she said.” Nemesis At Bertram’s Hotel A Caribbean Mystery The Mirror Crack’d

9. “And Mr. Burnaby said acutely: ‘Well, it doesn’t seem to have done her much good, poor lass.’ But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.” Hercule Poirot’s Christmas Appointment with Death Death on the Nile Ten Little Indians

10. “We shall not hunt together again, my friend. Our first hunt was here – and our last … They were good days, Yes, they have been good days…” Postern of Fate The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Labours of Hercules Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case