Dorothy Quote #1155

Quote from Dorothy in The Case of the Libertine Belle

Dorothy: The hotel security chief cordoned off the room, so the only people who saw the room after the murder, other than you and your staff, were the waiter, the security chief, and the four of us.
Alvarez: So?
Dorothy: So when Miss MacGlinn was reconstructing the murder scene, she described Blanche's dress being slung over the bed.
Alvarez: It was. I saw it.
Dorothy: But Miss MacGlinn could only have seen it if she'd been there prior to the murder. [Blanche gasps] I think I see now how it happened. Last evening, at dinner, when Miss MacGlinn saw Blanche give Kendall Nesbitt her key, she was furious. She dropped a steak knife into her purse.
Sophia: Big deal, I took a whole place setting.
Dorothy: Not now, Ma! And when she felt that she wouldn't be missed, she slipped out of the dining room and headed upstairs. Kendall had let himself into Blanche's room while she was in the shower and was making himself comfortable when there was a knock at the door. Thinking it was the champagne, he opened the door.
Posey was there. She accused him of two-timing. He denied it. Posey pulled out a steak knife, plunged it into his chest and left the room before Blanche could discover her. Jealous rage was the motive, all right, but Blanche wasn't the murderer. There's your murderer, Posey MacGlinn.

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 ‘The Case of the Libertine Belle’ Quotes

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Sophia: He looks pretty dead to me.
Dorothy: All right, Ma, give me your mirror.
Rose: What for?
Dorothy: Every morning I hold it under Ma's nose. If it fogs up, I start the coffee.

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Marlowe: Nice try, ma' am, but Philip and Gloria are innocent of those crimes.
Dorothy: Perhaps, but they are both murderers.
Sophia: Sit down, Dorothy. Don't make a fool of yourself.
Marlowe: Would you care to explain?
Dorothy: In the first place, it is unlikely that Gloria murdered her father. Statistics show that patricide is overwhelmingly a male crime. Although daughters frequently murder their mothers!

Quote from Rose

Rose: You know, back in Minnesota, I was known as the Sherlock Holmes of St. Olaf.
Dorothy: Figured out which one was Shinola, did you, Rose?
Rose: The hard way.