Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

Three Blind Mice
Three Blind Mice
See how they run
See how they run
They all ran after the farmer’s wife
She cut off their tails with a carving knife
Did you ever see such a sight in your life
Epigraph

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It was very cold. The sky was dark and heavy with unshed snow.
[incipit of "Three Blind Mice"]

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"The psychology of fear must be thoroughly understood. Say you are alone in a room. A door opens softly behind you—"
A door did open.
(Page 43, "Three Blind Mice")

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"And this," said Jane Helier, completing her introductions, "is Miss Marple!"
[incipit of "Strange Jest"]

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"He didn’t trust anybody."
"Very wise of him," said Miss Marple. "The depravity of human nature is unbelievable."
(Page 68, "Strange Jest")

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Miss Politt took hold of the knocker and rapped politely on the cottage door.
[incipit of "Tape Measure Murder"]

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Miss Marple, that sweet-faced—and, some said, vinegar-tongued—elderly spinster who lived in the house next to the rectory, was interviewed very early.
(Page 80, "Tape Measure Murder")

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"Oh, if you please, madam, could I speak to you a moment?"
[incipit of "The Case of the Perfect Maid"]

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"Whew?" he muttered. "I wonder if she’s right?"
He soon found out that Miss Marple was right again.
(Page 104, "The Case of the Perfect Maid")

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"Well," demanded Doctor Haydock of his patient. "And how goes it today?"
[incipit of "The Case of the Caretaker"]

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"Bother!" said Pat.
[incipit of "The Third Floor Flat"]

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One should always speak with absolute accuracy. That is a little—how do you say?—fad of mine.
Poirot
(Page 126, "The Third Floor Flat")

You can understand the feelings of a mother," said Mrs. Waverly for perhaps the sixth time.
[incipit of "The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly"]

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"You don’t imagine—"
"Never do I imagine. Only—I employ the little grey cells. And sometimes, just sometimes, I have a little idea."
(Page 143, "The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly")

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I refused to be drawn. Poirot has deceived me so often that I now go warily. There is always a catch somewhere.
(Page 143, "The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly")

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Hercule Poirot was dining with his friend, Henry Bonnington at the Gallant Endeavour in the King’s Road, Chelsea.
[incipit of "Four and Twenty Blackbirds"]

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Little Mr. Satterthwaite looked thoughtfully across at his host.
[incipit of "The Love Detectives"]

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By a curious effect of light—the headlights of one car and the red taillight of the other—Mr. Quin seemed for a moment to be dressed in motley himself. But it was only the light.
(Page 167, "The Love Detectives")

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Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, Agatha Christie