#margeryallingham — Public Fediverse posts

"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

@EJBrand Seven of my favorite authors:

#GeorgeEliot
#HenryJames
#MargeryAllingham
#MaryRenault
#ChinuaAchebe
#EdnaOBrien
#WilliamTrevor

#bookstodon