“About the only things that change from one Plum novel to the other are the eccentricities of the skips and the dastardliness of the chief Bad Guy.”
“For once I finally know who my enemies are, so I might as well treat them with the same dastardliness that they would treat me.”
“Few, perhaps, could have reckoned with the peculiar dastardliness of dispatching a special ambassador to play for time until preparations for a surprise attack were ready.”
“Then, her mind was filled with an intense hate, a hate for the dastards that abducted her crewmates.”
“But now when I am coming amongst the baronages and the lineages, what shall I do to hold up my head before the fools and the dastards of these high kindreds?”
