Agatha Christie

Agatha, dessert matters. It gives the guilty person time to overact.

Arthur, they overact before dessert. Sugar only makes the panic glossy.

I prefer a room where everyone is guilty and the wallpaper knows it.

Poe, that is not detection. That is a haunted mood with furniture.

And yet your detective needed a violin to think.

Agatha, your polite rooms have more tension than my crime scenes.

Arthur, because I let the tea lie before the suspect does.

A room gets interesting the moment civility starts sweating.

Jane, you call it civility. I call it everybody hiding evidence behind manners.

Evidence? Please. Half of society is motive wearing gloves.