My favorite word (today) is "defenestrate",
and jaily so few people have any idea what it means, although it was the prefered form of murder in medieval and renaissance Bohemia......
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
Updated On: 3/4/06 at 10:15 AM