Trinidad and Tobagian

— Well, it's all right to have the confidence of a Trinidad and Tobagian tobogganist, I reflect, but then when you’ve not read many books other than green and whites for a while, it’s not surprising that I haven’t come across some arresting openings other than the famous, and I suspect apocryphal: “Damn!” said the duchess, “but someone’s done my lover in” - which is supposed to contain a heady mixture of sex, violence, exoticism, eroticism and racy language, and therefore irresistible to the reader.