Marjorie Allingham: It’s All in the Talk
By Kathleen George
October 7, 2011Gun wielding, physical fights, explosions, exotic weapons—none are more threatening or fearsome than . . . words. One of the scariest scenes ever in mysteries has stuck with me for life and that is the antepentultimate (I just learned that word) scene in Margery Allingham’s The Tiger in the Smoke. Oh, there is such a…