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Patricia Pakenham-Walsh, also known as Patricia Moyes (19 January 1923 – 2 August 2000) was a British mystery writer. Her mystery novels feature C.I.D. Inspector Henry Tibbett. One of them, Who Saw Her Die (Many Deadly Returns in the USA) was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1971. She wrote several juveniles and short stories.

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Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

Away, Beauty, Far Away, Hints, Kent, Sea

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

Brutality, Easier, Endure, Ridicule, Sometimes

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

Bricks, Frustrated, Journalism, Journalists

The buildings. . . had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

Building, Buildings, Inevitable, Places, Revisited, Shrinkage

it is perfectly possible to converse with any cat, from prize-winning Siamese to alley tabby. Humans who are slow learners may start with a highly articulate Siamese and progress in time to the more sensitive and difficult business of talking to scared strays. Other people, naturally gifted, can talk to any cat right away.

Cat, Converse, Difficult, Strays, Talking, Winning

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Making, Passion, People, Simply, Uncomfortable, Women

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

Benefit, Cat, Immense, Mutual Benefit, People, Two

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

Believe, Cat, Nature, Possible, Teach

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

Causes, Interesting, Lead, Resounding, Retrospect

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

Age, Grows, Older, People, Younger

Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

Autumn, Barely, Chrysanthemums, Country, Garden, Stood

suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

Leaving, Revenge, Suicide

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

Cat, Exchanging, Few Words, Greetings, Invariably, Pass