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Margery Allingham: He did not...

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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.

Source: Death of a Ghost, 1934.
-- Margery Allingham, (May 20 1904-1966), English detective story writer; She is remembered as the mystery writer who created sleuth Atbert Campion in Mind Readers, 1965.


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