Margery Allingham

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable read more

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang read more

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that read more

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst read more

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I read more

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.