183 Quotes About Cozy-mystery

Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite.” (Senator)

Quote taken from Chapter 1 of The Corpse Wore Gingham:"You love to figure out things as much as I do,” Piper said.“Like what?” Bill asked.“You fix broken stuff,” Piper replied.“Repairing a broken toaster or steam iron is far different than unraveling a murder mystery," Bill said.

I’m hungry as a church mouse, Hope. Do you have anything to eat?Hope looked down at His Whiskery Lordship swishing his black tail back and forth at her. He’d tucked a blue paper napkin into his collar. “When did you wake up?” she asked.

Quote taken from Chapter 1:"The police should be in it, not us. We’re out of here.” Bill did an about-face to retrace their route to the door.Piper whipped out a hand and snagged him by the shirttail. Her tone returned to crisp and decisive. “Slow down, Roadrunner. I’m not ready to leave. We’ve got work to do.”Incredulous, he stared gape-mouthed at her. “You'd better explain,” he said.She wiggled her nose. “I’m growing nosier by the second about the circumstances surrounding Anna’s murder.

Hope turned sly. “What if the slice of apple pie is served a la mode?”Smiling, Peggy Sue regarded her tall, brunette, and blue-eyed friend. “Is the slice of apple pie served a la mode with three scoops of homemade vanilla ice cream piled on top of it?

Isabel frowned. “Alma Trumbo, you did not just dig up a human bone from our flowerbed. It’s got to be a dinosaur bone, dinky or not.”“A dinosaur bone, eh?” The short, stout Alma gave her tall, slim sister the old up and down. “What then, are we the Flintstones living in Bedrock?

Speaking of the devil, what is Alma doing right now?” “Well...” Sitting in her favorite armchair, Isabel craned her neck around to peer down the hallway to where she saw Alma squealing and clapping hands at their pet beagle Petey Sampson. With his tail wagging, he woof-woofed at her, and she woof-woofed right back at him.

So you say. I just hope you don’t catch some exotic dinosaur ailment because Eustis probably doesn’t stock the right pills to treat it.

Quote taken from Chapter 1Bill hung up, grumbling to nobody in particular. Emily was about the only caller using the landline phone, and he regretted not getting rid of it. The Robinses were probably the lone holdouts on their city block to still have one.