Quotes by Margery Allingham

“She rose and followed her bust from the room.”

“The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.”

“I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.”