Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger Quotes
There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.
Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?
... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.