“What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.”

After the Funeral (1953)

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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

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