Inspector Birch Quotes

“Oh! Well, come along, and let’s get the facts sorted out a bit. I like to know where I am, Mr. Gillingham.”

“D’you know where you are in this case?” “I know where I’m going to be.” “Where’s that?” “Put through it by Inspector Birch,” said Antony with a smile.

“I should hardly call it ‘reasonable’ to lose your head,” said Antony, getting up from his chair and coming towards them.

“I think, Mr. Cayley, it would be better if I saw the servants alone. You know what they are; the more people about, the more they get alarmed. I expect I can get at the truth better by myself.”

It would have interested Antony to know that, just at the time when he was feeling rather superior to the prejudiced inspector, the Inspector himself was letting his mind dwell lovingly upon the possibilities in connection with Mr. Gillingham. Was it only a coincidence that Mr. Gillingham had turned up just when he did? And Mr. Beverley’s curious answers when asked for some account of his friend. An assistant in a tobacconist’s, a waiter! An odd man, Mr. Gillingham, evidently. It might be as well to keep an eye on him.

“I hope the landlord at ‘The George’ gave me a good character?” The Inspector looked at him quickly. “Now how on earth do you know anything about that?” Antony bowed to him gravely. “Because I guessed that you were a very efficient member of the Force.”