Margery Allingham

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.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

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.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding read more

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

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.