"I think you must be Lord Peter Wimsey. I wondered why your face was so familiar, but of course it was all in the papers a few years ago when you disentangled the Riddlesdale Mystery."
"Quite right. It's a silly kind of face, of course, but rather disarming, don't you think? I don't know that I'd have chosen it, but I do my best with it. I do hope it isn't contracting a sleuth-like expression, or anything unpleasant. This is the real sleuth - my friend Detective-Inspector Parker of Scotland Yard. He's the one who really does the work. I make imbecile suggestions and he does the work of elaborately disproving them."
(from Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers)
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