No Love Lost

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Margery Allingham. No Love Lost

No Love Lost

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THE PATIENT AT PEACOCKS HALL

PART ONE

PART TWO

SAFER THAN LOVE

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

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Margery Allingham

Published by Good Press, 2021

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‘If you saw somebody, made yourself known to them, that’s something.’ He spoke with relief and I found myself peering at him. He had changed somehow. There was something new about him, and to my annoyance I could not decide what it was. I wondered if he was stewing up for a nerve crisis. He caught my expression and pulled himself together. ‘I am almost beside myself,’ he explained awkwardly. ‘As you know, since ... since the war I have become such a lover of comfort and order and peace. Any change of plan makes me jitter. This morning the good woman who has been looking after Madame Maurice telephoned to say that the hour of departure must be changed. I was in despair, you were in London and out of reach. Finally I got hold of the ambulance people and with some difficulty got them to go earlier.’

He took a deep breath and leaned back. The idea, apparently, was that I should sympathize with him.

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