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Margery Allingham: When one kicks...

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When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

Source: Dancers in Mourning, 1937.
-- 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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