Sunday, January 24, 2010

Earwigs

Subject:  Earwigs
Quote:  “Oh, definitely a dreary woman.  Rather like an earwig.  She’s a devoted mother.  So are earwigs, I believe.”
Character:  Charles Arundell
Chapter/Story:  14
Book Title/Copyright: Poirot Loses a Client, 1937


Subject:  Earwigs
Quote:  “A kind of natural history fact, I’ve always understood.”
            “Yes—yes.  Like earwigs making good mothers.”
            “Do they indeed, sir?  Now that’s a fact I didn’t know.”
Character:  Mr. Totman and Edmund Swettenham
Chapter/Story:  Epilogue
Book Title/Copyright:  A Murder is Announced, 1950