Ruth Rendell was one of the great crime writers. Her books – notable for their careful psychological observation, as well as their gripping plots – have sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and she won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers” Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
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Margery Allingham & Agatha Christie: Six Against the Yard
A unique anthology for crime aficionados – six ‘perfect murder’ stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, wh …
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Margery Allingham & Anthony Berkeley: Six Against the Yard
Six “perfect murders” by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club—plus an essay by Agatha Christie. Founded in England …
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Cecily Gayford: A Very Murderous Christmas
The Christmas season is one of comfort and joy, sparkling lights and steam rising from cups of mulled wine at frosty carol services. A season of goodwill, as families and friends come together to for …
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Margery Allingham: Flowers For The Judge
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Scandal, secrets and suspicions abound when …
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Margery Allingham: Cargo Of Eagles
Agatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Private detective Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Sa …
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Margery Allingham: Coroner’s Pidgin
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Just returned from years overseas on a secre …
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Margery Allingham: More Work for the Undertaker
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Al …
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Margery Allingham: Mystery Mile
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an …
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Margery Allingham: Sweet Danger
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYNestled along the Adriatic coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly – and suspiciously – become the hottest property in Europe, and Albert Campion is given the task of re …
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Margery Allingham: Beckoning Lady
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Private detective Albert Campion’s glorious …
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Margery Allingham: China Governess
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private det …
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Margery Allingham: Fashion In Shrouds
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacke …
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Margery Allingham: Mind Readers
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Fact catches up with fiction when the secret …
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Margery Allingham: Tiger In The Smoke
‘I adore Margery Allingham, and this is I think her finest book’ Reverend Richard Coles Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the cl …
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Margery Allingham: Hide My Eyes
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert C …
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Margery Allingham: Case of the Late Pig
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Private detective Albert Campion is summoned …
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Margery Allingham: Traitor’s Purse
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?Celebrated detective Albert Campion awakes i …
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Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?The tranquility of Cambridge is punctured wh …
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Margery Allingham: Crime At Black Dudley
THE FIRST CAMPION MYSTERY’Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light’Agatha Christie A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and a groupof …
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Margery Allingham: Look To The Lady
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble. Unexpected news to him but not to the mysterious Mr Camp …
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Margery Allingham: Death of a Ghost
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYJohn Lafcadio s ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. A set of twelve sealed paintings …
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Margery Allingham: Dancers In Mourning
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWhen song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there s only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against th …
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Allingham Margery Allingham: No Love Lost
Comprising of two short novellas, No Love Lost is a thrilling work of suspense. The Patient at Peacocks Hall: Dr Ann Fowler is a young doctor who has dedicated her life to medicine in the wake of hea …
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Margery Allingham: Mr Campion & Others
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light . Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?A baker s dozen of cases, each putting Alber …
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Cecily Gayford: Murder On Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents lie under the tree … and murder is afoot. In this collection of ten classic murder mysteries by the best crime writer …
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Allingham Margery Allingham: Dance of the Years
Published as The Galantrys in America, Dance of the Years is one of Margery Allingham’s oft overlooked novels. Originally published in 1943, it is a fictionalised account of Allingham’s family herita …
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Cecily Gayford: Murder under the Christmas Tree
Christmas is a time of goodwill to all men … or is it? As the nights draw in, throw another log on the fire and settle back into your armchair to enjoy this collection of ten classic Christmas myst …
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Margery Allingham & Agatha Christie: Bodies from the Library 2
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen novell …
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Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudleylack Dudley
When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind – proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according …
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Margery Allingham: The Oaken Heart
This village of Auburn might be so complacently picturesque if it weren’t for the shop which Albert and his father built of public washroom brick slap in the middle of the Square, that we owe the two …
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Margery Allingham: Mystery Mile
The Englishman at his side glanced across the sea of chairs at the handsome old man they had been watching. ‘Ten pounds, ’ he said. ‘All right, I’ll take you. You’ve no idea what a safe little place …
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Cecily Gayford: Murder in Midsummer
A rock pool with a deadly secret. A bank holiday heatwave dominated by the murder of an unknown man. A sun-drenched picnic that ends in a sinister locked-room mystery. And an Adriatic holiday interru …
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Margery Allingham: Look to the Lady
The Gyrth family had guarded the Gyrth Chalice for hundreds of years. It was held by them for the British Crown. Its antiquity, its beauty, the legends that were connected with it, all combined to ma …
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Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral
When one man is following another, however discreet may be the pursuer or the pursued, the act does not often pass unnoticed in the streets of London. There were at least four people who realized tha …
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Margery Allingham: Death of a Ghost
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder. The assassination of another by any person of reasonable caution must, in a civilized world, tend to be …
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Margery Allingham: Sweet Danger
Guffy Randall, who was allowing his car to roll in a leisurely fashion, down the gentle slope, to the sharp right-angle turn which would bring him to the front of the hotel and lunch, pulled up and o …
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Margery Allingham: Flowers For the Judge
The story of the little man, sometimes a stockbroker, sometimes a tea merchant, but always something in the City, who walked out of his suburban house one sunny morning and vanished like a puff of gr …
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Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig
The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion’s, and I am fairly certain tha …
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Margery Allingham: El signo del miedo
Una apasionante aventura para el aristocrático y excéntrico detective Albert Campion, uno de los más singulares héroes de la narrativa negra inglesa del XX, un personaje adorado por Agatha Christie, …
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Margery Allingham: Más trabajo para el enterrador
Vuelve el atractivo y elegante aventurero Albert Campion, en una trama criminal en la que se mezclan envenenamientos, cartas anónimas, médiums, certificados de defunción falsificados, merodeos noctur …
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Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, …
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Margery Allingham: Mr. Campion: Criminologist
Mr Campion, piloting his companion through the crowded courtyard at Burlington House, became aware of the old lady in the Daimler partly because her chauffeur almost ran over him and partly because s …
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Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds
Probably the most exasperating thing about the Fashion is its elusiveness. Even the word has a dozen definitions, and when it is pinned down and qualified, as “the Fashion in woman’s dress, ” it beco …
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Margery Allingham: Mr Campion and Others
The second prettiest girl in Mayfair was thanking Superintendent Stanislaus Oates for the recovery of her diamond bracelet and the ring with the square-cut emerald in it, and Mr Campion, who had acco …
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Margery Allingham: Pearls Before Swine
The man and the woman carried the body cautiously up the stairs. Although it was still early evening, the narrow way was grey and shadowy, and it was very cold, colder even than it had been outside a …
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Margery Allingham: More Work for the Undertaker
‘I found a stiff in there once, down at the back just behind the arch, ’ said Stanislaus Oates, pausing before the shop-window and peering in apparently to inspect a display of baby clothes. ‘I alway …
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Margery Allingham: The Tiger in the Smoke
GHOSTS “It may be only blackmail, ” said the man in the taxi hopefully. The fog was like a saffron blanket soaked in ice-water. It had hung over London all day and at last was beginning to descend. T …
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Margery Allingham: The Beckoning Lady
Mr William Makepeace Faraday, author of many amusing librettos, died last Saturday in Pontisbright, Suffolk, at the age of eighty-two. He was born in Cambridge in the late sixties, the son of Dr Jame …
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Margery Allingham: Hide My Eyes
The arrival of the ’bus was timed to perfection. Nobody of the slightest importance saw it at all. Traffic was slack, the theatres were only halfway through the evening performances, and no police we …
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Margery Allingham: The China Governess
“It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.” In t …
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Margery Allingham: The Mind Readers
The great city of London was once more her splendid self: mysterious as ever but bursting with new life. In the tightly packed clusters of villages with the ancient names—Hackney, Holborn, Shoreditch …
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Margery Allingham: Look to the Lady
The Gyrth family has guarded the Gyrth Chalice for hundreds of years. Its antiquity, its beauty, the legends that were connected with it, all combined to make it unique. No thief could hope to dispos …
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Margery Allingham: Crime at Black Dudley
When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind: proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don’t quite go according to p …
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Margery Allingham: Coroner’s Pidgin
"Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever." -Sara Paretsky World War II is limping to a close and pr …
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Margery Allingham: Beckoning Lady
Murder darkens the bright days of summer in an idyllic Suffolk village, in an Albert Campion mystery that is simply "unforgettable" (A.S. Byatt).Private detective Albert Campion’s glorious …
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Margery Allingham: Allingham Casebook
A classic collection of mystery stories: "With skillful plotting laced with tongue-in-cheek humor, Allingham never ceases to intrigue and surprise" (Daily Mail).This volume offer eighteen d …
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Margery Allingham: More Work for the Undertaker
“A top-notch mystery full of keen characterization, humor, old English atmosphere, a charmingly decadent family, and a few sudden deaths.” —The New York Times A beggarwoman o …
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Margery Allingham: Fashion in Shrouds
A custom-made killer shocks the fashionable London set in “one of the finest murder books ever written” featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (The New Yorker). Albert Campion&r …
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Margery Allingham: China Governess
"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance." -Agatha Christie Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and …
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Margery Allingham: Traitor’s Purse
"If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it." -A.S. Byatt Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital, accused of attacking a police officer a …
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Margery Allingham: Cargo of Eagles
A lively British mystery from "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander Mc Call Smith).Strange things are happening in Saltey. The little villag …
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Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning
Murder takes center stage when a song-and-dance man is targeted, in an Albert Campion whodunit from "the best of mystery writers" (The New Yorker).When entertainer Jimmy Sutane falls victim …
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Margery Allingham: Hide My Eyes
Private detective Albert Campion hunts a serial killer in London’s theatre district, in this crime novel from "the best of mystery writers" (The New Yorker).A spate of murders leaves Campio …
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Margery Allingham: Mind Readers
A mysterious invention causes mayhem in a coastal English village-from "my very favourite of the four Queens of Crime" (J. K. Rowling).The ancient hamlet of Saltey, once the haunt of smuggl …
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Margery Allingham: Sweet Danger
With gentleman sleuth Albert Campion on the case and plenty of European intrigue, "Sweet Danger is for the connoisseur of detective fiction" (Sunday Times).Nestled along the Adriatic coastl …
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Margery Allingham: Tiger in the Smoke
"The Tiger in the Smoke is a phenomenal novel." -J. K. Rowling A fog is creeping through the weary streets of London-so too are whispers that the Tiger is back in town, undetected by the la …
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Margery Allingham: Allingham Minibus
A collection of eighteen classic Golden Age short stories from “the best of mystery writers”—with a tribute by Agatha Christie (The New Yorker). Acclaimed by critics and her …
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Margery Allingham: Black Plumes
A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. “One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank.” —The New York Times Something is afoot a …
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Margery Allingham: Deadly Duo
Two classic mystery stories from the Golden Age author who “stands out like a shining light” (Agatha Christie). “Wanted: Someone Innocent” At a retirement reception for …
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Margery Allingham: Look to the Lady
“Wonderfully plotted . . . A marvelous mixture of witchcraft, sacred relics and ancient oaths. [Allingham was a] rare and precious talent.” —The Washington Post   …
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Margery Allingham: Death of a Ghost
An artist’s legacy lives on—through murder in this Albert Campion mystery masterpiece from “one of the finest Golden-Age crime novelists” (The Sunday Telegraph). …
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Margery Allingham: Devil and Her Son
A desperate woman’s innocent escape from London turns deadly in this suspenseful mystery by the renowned author of the Albert Campion series. Out of a job, a home, and luck, Mary Colerid …
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Margery Allingham: Man of Dangerous Secrets
A haunting romantic mystery from the renowned author of the Albert Campion detective novels: “Allingham stands out like a shining light” (Agatha Christie). Robin Grey is Scotland Y …
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Margery Allingham: Rogues’ Holiday
“An ace high mystery, with unexpected situations and new methods used by old rogues” from the Golden Age author of the Albert Campion series (Kirkus Reviews). An apparent suicide a …
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Margery Allingham: Oaken Heart
World War II on the home front: “Fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society or James Herriot will enjoy this unique historical account.” —Library Journal This …
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Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral
From the Golden Age mystery author comes “a richly detailed and entertaining romp, with a fascinating resolution and an unconventional and winning sleuth” (Chicago Tribune). Albert …
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Margery Allingham: Deadly Duo
Deadly Duo – two superb novellas of murder, mystery and deceit – includes ‘Wanted: Someone Innocent’ and ‘Last Act.’ Margery Allingham was a British writer detective stories during the ‘Golden Age’ o …
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Margery Allingham: No Love Lost
Here in one volume are two swift-moving stories from one of the most popular writers of detective fiction. Both are told in the first person by a woman; both reach climax and solution in a few tense …
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Margery Allingham: The Oaken Heart
The story of a small English village called Auburn and the lives of its people during the Second World War. In her one autobiographical work, Margery Allingham tells of the emotions of the people aro …
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Margery Allingham: Word in Season. A Story for Christmas.
A very short story, set at Christmas and featuring Albert Campion Wikipedia. An earlier version, A Word in Season, had appeared in 1955. This version appeared in Mr Campion’s Lady, The Second Allingh …
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Margery Allingham: Return of Mr. Campion
A collection of thirteen short stories brings back an acclaimed Golden Age mystery author’s beloved sleuth, as well as a host of fresh characters and genres.Margery Allingham fans will delight at bei …
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Margery Allingham: The White Cottage Mystery
First published serially in 1927, “The White Cottage Mystery” is Margery Allingham’s second published novel. Best known for her gentleman sleuth Albert Campion, who would be introduced in the author’ …
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Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge
Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this "vivid and witty" British mystery (The New York Times).Scandal hits the prestigious publishing hou …
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Margery Allingham: Case of the Late Pig
A man is killed five months after his funeral, in a tale by "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander Mc Call Smith).Private detective Albert Ca …
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Margery Allingham: Campion. Tödliches Erbe
»Margery Allingham sticht heraus wie ein Licht in der Dunkelheit.« Agatha Christie Die große Wiederentdeckung der Legende des Golden Age of Crime Albert Campion. Einer der cleversten Detektive der K …
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