Maxioms by Margery Allingham
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.
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.
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.
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the 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.
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in read more
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.