‘Clara Margery Melita Sharp was an English writer of 25 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, four plays, two mysteries, and numerous short stories.’ Wikipedia full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine

Margery Sharp (1905-1991), “Thief of Time”
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‘Oh, it was my fault! I was the criminal who stole the fifteen precious minutes and precipitated the disaster. But I tried – I tried – to pay them back’
*Collier’s*, August 9, 1952
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Margery Sharp, “Notorious Tenant”
‘Sherrard’s apartment was his castle; in Cecilia he’d found the right person to sublet it. Or had he? Was she witch or woman, wanton or wonderful?’
*Collier’s*, Feb. 3, 1956
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