“The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.”

— Sarah Caudwell, book The Sirens Sang of Murder

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English barrister and writer 1939–2000

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