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"The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion's, and I am fairly certain that I was pretty nearly brilliant in it in spite of the fact that I so nearly got myself and old Lugg killed that I hear a harp quintet whenever I consider it."
Opening paragraph of The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
#books #MargeryAllingham #Campion #FirstLines #OpeningLines -
"The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion's, and I am fairly certain that I was pretty nearly brilliant in it in spite of the fact that I so nearly got myself and old Lugg killed that I hear a harp quintet whenever I consider it."
Opening paragraph of The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
#books #MargeryAllingham #Campion #FirstLines #OpeningLines -
New She Dunnit #podcast episode about #MargeryAllingham
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New She Dunnit #podcast episode about #MargeryAllingham
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New She Dunnit #podcast episode about #MargeryAllingham
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New She Dunnit #podcast episode about #MargeryAllingham
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Salubrious: (of a place) pleasant; not run-down.
"Are you sure you want to go there?....That's it, Rolf's Dump. There's miles of it, see? All along the canal. It won't be what you might call very salubrious this time of night."
#HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham
#AmReading
#Vocabulary
#WhoDunnit
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Salubrious: (of a place) pleasant; not run-down.
"Are you sure you want to go there?....That's it, Rolf's Dump. There's miles of it, see? All along the canal. It won't be what you might call very salubrious this time of night."
#HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham
#AmReading
#Vocabulary
#WhoDunnit
@bookstodon -
Salubrious: (of a place) pleasant; not run-down.
"Are you sure you want to go there?....That's it, Rolf's Dump. There's miles of it, see? All along the canal. It won't be what you might call very salubrious this time of night."
#HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham
#AmReading
#Vocabulary
#WhoDunnit
@bookstodon -
Salubrious: (of a place) pleasant; not run-down.
"Are you sure you want to go there?....That's it, Rolf's Dump. There's miles of it, see? All along the canal. It won't be what you might call very salubrious this time of night."
#HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham
#AmReading
#Vocabulary
#WhoDunnit
@bookstodon -
Salubrious: (of a place) pleasant; not run-down.
"Are you sure you want to go there?....That's it, Rolf's Dump. There's miles of it, see? All along the canal. It won't be what you might call very salubrious this time of night."
#HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham
#AmReading
#Vocabulary
#WhoDunnit
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Sibilant: making or characterized by a hissing sound.
"A knot of pretty girls, doubtless young actresses, were sitting in one corner with their heads together, their voices lowered and sibilant over the latest wrong."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Sibilant: making or characterized by a hissing sound.
"A knot of pretty girls, doubtless young actresses, were sitting in one corner with their heads together, their voices lowered and sibilant over the latest wrong."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Sibilant: making or characterized by a hissing sound.
"A knot of pretty girls, doubtless young actresses, were sitting in one corner with their heads together, their voices lowered and sibilant over the latest wrong."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Sibilant: making or characterized by a hissing sound.
"A knot of pretty girls, doubtless young actresses, were sitting in one corner with their heads together, their voices lowered and sibilant over the latest wrong."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Sibilant: making or characterized by a hissing sound.
"A knot of pretty girls, doubtless young actresses, were sitting in one corner with their heads together, their voices lowered and sibilant over the latest wrong."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension.
"Tell me, Major, any more developments in the you-know-what business? You mentioned it last time."
"Oh, that's in abeyance," he said with disarming embarrassment, "whatever it was."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension.
"Tell me, Major, any more developments in the you-know-what business? You mentioned it last time."
"Oh, that's in abeyance," he said with disarming embarrassment, "whatever it was."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension.
"Tell me, Major, any more developments in the you-know-what business? You mentioned it last time."
"Oh, that's in abeyance," he said with disarming embarrassment, "whatever it was."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension.
"Tell me, Major, any more developments in the you-know-what business? You mentioned it last time."
"Oh, that's in abeyance," he said with disarming embarrassment, "whatever it was."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension.
"Tell me, Major, any more developments in the you-know-what business? You mentioned it last time."
"Oh, that's in abeyance," he said with disarming embarrassment, "whatever it was."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary
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Insouciant: showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.
"You'll never win nothink that way. The only way to win on 'orses, dogs, pools, or anythink else is to take it insouciant."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Insouciant: showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.
"You'll never win nothink that way. The only way to win on 'orses, dogs, pools, or anythink else is to take it insouciant."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Insouciant: showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.
"You'll never win nothink that way. The only way to win on 'orses, dogs, pools, or anythink else is to take it insouciant."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Insouciant: showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.
"You'll never win nothink that way. The only way to win on 'orses, dogs, pools, or anythink else is to take it insouciant."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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Insouciant: showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.
"You'll never win nothing that way. The only way to win on 'orses, dogs, pools, or anythink else is to take it insouciant."
From #HideMyEyes by #MargeryAllingham #AmReading @bookstodon #Vocabulary #WhoDunnit
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@EJBrand Seven of my favorite authors:
#GeorgeEliot
#HenryJames
#MargeryAllingham
#MaryRenault
#ChinuaAchebe
#EdnaOBrien
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@knittingtrex in the same vein as Agatha Christie, have you checked out #NgaioMarsh or #MargeryAllingham ?
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@knittingtrex in the same vein as Agatha Christie, have you checked out #NgaioMarsh or #MargeryAllingham ?
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@knittingtrex in the same vein as Agatha Christie, have you checked out #NgaioMarsh or #MargeryAllingham ?
