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Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

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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.

Source: The Tiger in the Smoke, 1952.
-- 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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