Willoughby Goddard: Sir Geoffrey Norton

Quotes 

• Sir Geoffrey Norton : The Macedonians insist that it's our case; I think that it's theirs. They say that although the man's heart was evidently in Macedonia, his feet were on British territory.

  Oldenshaw : [Reading report]  Dimmock! The knife was Spanish, the blade was ground in Bayonne and the money in the dead man's pocket was Italian lira. How can you resist the international flavour of such a case?

  Dimmock : Very easily.

  Oldenshaw : This, I take it, is a photograph of the dead man?

  Sir Geoffrey Norton : Yes. It shows his position midway between the two countries, so to speak.

  Oldenshaw : It also shows his clothes - a poor quality and an outrageous cut.

  Sir Geoffrey Norton : He's hardly looking his best.

  Oldenshaw : Off the peg, south of Naples, I should say. What do you think, Dimmock?

  Dimmock : I think it is a police case and I think they should get on with it.

  Oldenshaw : You are very hard at times, Dimmock. The police is overworked and understaffed.

  Dimmock : So are the railways. Do you suggest we go to King's Cross and drive a train?

• Sir Geoffrey Norton : I've just had the Embassy on the phone, they've given me hell.

  Dimmock : Did you accept it?