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The Estate of the Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham
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The Estate of the Beckoning Lady

by Margery Allingham

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'It is very unlucky to interfere with a marriage of long standing. If the man doesn't kill you, you'll certainly get an earful from the woman.'
Chief Superintendent Stanislaus Oates in a Lecture to Young Constables
'But who,' said Florizel at last, 'who is this lady who is for ever beckoning?'
'That,' replied he, 'is beyond my knowledge. Some aver that she is Love, or Dame Fortune. Some, honour in the field. Some, the Muse herself. And the old have an unpleasant idea that she is Death. But all I can tell you about her for certain is that her eyes are laughing, and that she is without mercy.'
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(from the translation by Anthony Greene, 1929)
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This Book is Affectionately Inscribed to my Old Friends and their Merry Wives
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It was no time for dying.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0099506084, Paperback)

Old William Faraday is dead, apparently of natural causes. Another man is dead too, and it was certainly murder.

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