- Miss Jane Marple: Would you mind strangling me, Elspeth?
- Mrs. Elspeth McGillicuddy: Not at all, Jane.
- Miss Jane Marple: It's railway information not police information, when you think about it. And we all own the railways, now don't we?
- Miss Jane Marple: Tom's father was the best village constable St. Mary Mead ever had. Much missed.
- Inspector Tom Campbell: I have a confession to make. I did it.
- Miss Jane Marple: Oh?
- Inspector Tom Campbell: I scrumped those apples from the Price-Ridleys' orchard.
- Miss Jane Marple: [laughs] I know; it was obvious. But you learnt your lesson falling into the nettle patch. The screams -- I had him right down to his birthday suit and smothered every little bit of him in calamine lotion.
- Mrs. Elspeth McGillicuddy: You brute! Oh yes, that is the man I saw from the 4:50 from Paddington, on December the fourth, strangling a poor terrified woman to death.
- Alfred Crackenthorpe: Help me, Doctor Quimper! Help me, Doctor Quimper! Help!
- Dr. David Quimper: That's Alfred.