“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”

— Agatha Christie , book A Caribbean Mystery

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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

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Quoted by Harry Kessler in his diary, 14 November 1929 http://books.google.com/books?id=y_BJt918BHoC
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