“What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.”

—  Agatha Christie, book Murder on the Orient Express

Source: Murder on the Orient Express

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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

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