The Crime at Black Dudley Quotes

“His name is Albert Campion," she said. "He came down in Anne Edgeware's car and the first thing he did when he introduced himself was to show me a conjuring trick with a two-headed penny—he's quite inoffensive, just a silly ass.”
― Margery Allingham, The Black Dudley Murder

“George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her.”
― Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley

“as might have been expected, in the dinner-jacket he had worn on the previous evening. His explanation was characteristic. ‘Most extraordinary,’ he said, in his slightly high-pitched voice.”
― Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley