Margery Allingham (1904–66,) fully Margery Louise Allingham, was an English detective storywriter. She was celebrated for her unusual subtlety, wit, and imaginative power. She created the bland, bespectacled, keen-witted Albert Campion, one of the fascinating fictional detectives.
Born in London, Allingham wrote a string of elegant and witty popular thrillers, including The Crime at Black Dudley (1928,) Police at the Funeral (1931,) Flowers for the Judge (1936,) More Work for the Undertaker (1949,) The Tiger in the Smoke (1952,) The China Governess (1963) and The Mind Readers (1965.)
Allingham left Cargo of Eagles (1968) unfinished; her husband, Philip Youngman Carter, completed it.
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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
—Margery Allingham
Topics: Optimism
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
—Margery Allingham
Topics: Satisfaction
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. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for theyshall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous.
—Margery Allingham
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.
—Margery Allingham
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.
—Margery Allingham
Topics: Intuition
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