- Detective Inspector Slack: I thought it was looking too good to be true. I shoulds known better! Soon as I saw that nice looking, gray-haired cobra sliding about, I shoulda known better
- Detective Sergeant Lake: Hunh?
- Detective Inspector Slack: The Marple woman sticks to this sort of business like chewing gum to the cat.
- Detective Sergeant Lake: [Referring to Mrs. Price-Ridley] Oh, yes, and she thinks she heard the murderer in the shrubbery. Reckon she heard him sneeze.
- Detective Inspector Slack: So all we have to do is find someone with a snotty handkerchief!
- Miss Marple: I first came across Inspector Slack over that dreadful business at Gossington Hall. He is rather like these diesel engines that are now appearing all over our railways: most unappealing, but, I am told, efficient.