"Talk 'em in a tea shoppe": Philip MacDonald's Warrant for X, aka The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (1938)

Very interesting, Gethryn! A pretty story! A little forced, perhaps, but who can help that nowadays with so many people writing these things [mysteries]."Damn it all, Gethryn, it makes about as much sense as Lewis Carroll.""Anthony! I've been thinking! Those things don't happen in England!""Everything happens in England.""No. Not kidnapping.""It has. And it will again.""It American! It's American!""And England, in common with the rest of the world, is becoming more Americanised every day....""I don't like spiders....But their webs are pretty.""What did I tell you!" Never talk secrets in a private house. Never talk secrets in a public park. If you must talk secrets, talk 'em in a tea shoppe."in the book the teashop is dim olde English rather than bright American art decoa sanctum for whispered dark secrets and deplorable sinsPhilip MacDonald's "new" short crime and weird fiction collection, Dream No More, comes out in a week, but in the meantime I thought I would take one more look at…