Michael Aldridge: Dimmock

Quotes 

• [Oldenshaw surveys the list of names he's been supplied with] 

  Oldenshaw : No use whatsoever. All or none of these people could be the next victim. Research department! We might just as well have telephoned the Citizen's Advice Bureau.

  Dimmock : Perhaps you didn't programme our research ladies precisely enough.

  Oldenshaw : I did - very precisely. Meanwhile our killer is working on known facts.

  Dimmock : To a deadline?

  Oldenshaw : Please, Dimmock. Puns cause me acute dyspepsia.

• [Oldenshaw has spoken to one of Room 17's backroom staff] 

  Oldenshaw : What a discordant voice that female has.

  Dimmock : That'll be the one with a ginger moustache.

  Oldenshaw : How did you discover she has a ginger moustache?

  Dimmock : Easily: I asked her. On the intercom, "have you a ginger moustache?" From the sharp intake of breath and the click I deduced her guilt.