"'Really, your mind--' ... 'Like a sink, my nephew Raymond used to say,' Miss Marple agreed, nodding her head briskly. 'But I always told him, sinks are necesary domestic equipment and actually very hygienic.'"
— Christie, Agatha (1890-1976)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Collins Crime Club
Date
1957
Metaphor
"'Really, your mind--' ... 'Like a sink, my nephew Raymond used to say,' Miss Marple agreed, nodding her head briskly. 'But I always told him, sinks are necesary domestic equipment and actually very hygienic.'"
Metaphor in Context
"You imagined what you'd do if you were a cruel and cold-blooded murderer?" said Craddock, looking thoughtfully at Miss Marple's pink and white elderly fragility. "Really, your mind--"
"Like a sink, my nephew Raymond used to say," Miss Marple agreed, nodding her head briskly. "But I always told him, sinks are necesary domestic equipment and actually very hygienic."
(p. 114)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Joan Acocella, “Queen of Crime,” The New Yorker, August 16, 2010, p. 86
<Link to New Yorker>
Citation
Christie, Agatha. 4.50 from Paddington (London: Collins Crime Club, 1957). <Link to GoogleBooks>
Date of Entry
08/15/2010
