# “The greatest of these is lucre” by P.D. James

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- Published: 2009-06-26T09:44:57-05:00
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“And the house alone, thought Dalgliesh, must be worth at least three-quarters of
a million, probably considerably more, given its position and unique architechtural
interest. He recalled as he so often did the words of an old detective sergeant 
when he, Dalgliesh, had been a newly appointed DC: ‘Love, Lust, Loathing, Lucre,
the four L’s of murder, laddie. And the greatest of these is lucre.'”

–P.D. James, _A Taste for Death_ (New York: Vintage Books, 1986), 115.

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