The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

"It gives rogues and evil-minded characters an opportunity of visiting upon their 
devoted victim, all the ills attending combined power, when exerted to 
accomplish destruction. It works unseen, at all silent hours, and secret times 
and places; and, like death when summoning his diseases, pounces upon its 
devoted subject, and lays him prostrate in the dust. Like the great enemy of 
man, it has shown its cloven foot, and put the public upon its guard against its 
secret machinations"