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Margery Allingham
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Margery Allingham, who was born in London in 1904, came from a long line of writers. "I was brought up from babyhood in an atmosphere of ink and paper," she claimed. One ancestor wrote early nineteenth century melodramas, another wrote popular boys' school stories, and her grandfather was the proprietor of a religious newspaper. But it was her father, the author of serials for the popular weeklies, who gave her her earliest training as a writer. She began studying the craft at the age of seven and had published her first novel by the age of sixteen while still at boarding school. In 1927 she married Philip Youngman Carter, and the following year she produced the first of her Albert Campion detective stories, The Crime at Black Dudley. She and her husband lived a life "typical of the English countryside" she reported, with "horses, dogs, our garden and village activities" taking up leisure time. One wonders how much leisure time Margery Allingham, the author of more than thirty-three mystery novels in addition to short stories, serials, and book reviews, managed to have.
Full Series List in Order
Albert Campion Mysteries
1 - The Crime at Black Dudley // The Black Dudley Murder (1929)2 - Mystery Mile (1930)
3 - Look to the Lady // The Gyrth Chalice Mystery (Jan-1931)
4 - Police at the Funeral (1931)
5 - Sweet Danger // Kingdom of Death // The Fear Sign (Jan-1933)
6 - Death of a Ghost (1934)
7 - Flowers for the Judge // Legacy in Blood (Jan-1936)
8 - Dancers in Mourning // Who Killed Chloe? (Jan-1937)
9.1 - The Case of the Late Pig (1937)
9.2 - The Border-Line Case (Jan-1937)
9.3 - The Case of the Man with the Sack (Jan-1937)
9.3 - The Case of the Widow (Jan-1937)
9.4 - The Case of the Old Man in the Window (Jan-1937)
9.5 - The Case of the Pro and the Con (Jan-1937)
9.6 - The Case of the White Elephant (Jan-1937)
10 - Coroner's Pidgin // Pearls Before Swine (Jan-1937)
11 - The Fashion in Shrouds (1938)
12 - Mr Campion and Others ()
12.01 - The Name on the Wrapper (Jan-1939)
12.02 - The Hat Trick (Jan-1939)
12.03 - The Case of the Question Mark (Jan-1939)
12.04 - The Case of the Frenchman's Gloves (Jan-1939)
12.05 - The Longer View (Jan-1939)
12.06 - Safe As Houses (Jan-1939)
12.07 - The Definite Article (Jan-1939)
12.08 - The Meaning of the Act (Jan-1939)
12.09 - A Matter of Form (Jan-1939)
12.1 - The Danger Point (Jan-1939)
13 - Traitor's Purse // The Sabotage Murder Mystery (Jan-1941)
14 - Pearls Before Swine (1945)
15 - The Case Book of Mr. Campion (Jan-1947)
15.1 - The Crimson Letter (Jan-1947)
15.2 - The Magic Hat (Jan-1947)
16 - More Work for the Undertaker (1948)
17 - The Tiger in the Smoke // Tiger Loose (Jan-1952)
18 - The Beckoning Lady // The Estate of the Beckoning Lady (Jan-1955)
19 - Hide My Eyes // Tether's End // Ten Were Missing (Jan-1958)
20 - The China Governess (1962)
21 - The Mind Readers (1965)
22 - Cargo of Eagles (1968)
22.5 - The Allingham Case-Book (Jan-1969)
23 - The Allingham Minibus // Mr. Campion's Lucky Day and Other Stories (Mar-1973)
24 - The Return of Mr. Campion (Oct-1989)
Book List in Order: 85 titles
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Black'Erchief Dick; or, Blackkerchief Dick
- Jan-1923
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A historical novel about smugglers set on Mersea Island in the 17th century, where the Spaniard Delfazio discoveres how true love and friendship can be found in the darkest of places. With romance, heartbreak and adventure on an even keel, Blackkerch...
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The White Cottage Mystery
- 1928
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The mysterious recluse Eric Crowther was murdered, he lived in the gaunt house whose shadow fell across the White Cottage, much as the man himself overshadowed the lives of the occupants of the little white house. Indeed, as Detective Chief Inspector...
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The Crime at Black Dudley // The Black Dudley Murder
- 1929
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The Black Dudley is an ancient, remote mansion inhabited by recluse, Colonel Combe, but owned by Waytt Petrie, a young academic who decides to revive his property with a weekend party to which he invites his friends and colleagues. Among the guests i...
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Mystery Mile
- 1930
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A red chess piece... An improbable suicide... A disappearing judge... These were the clues to a killer whose victims never escaped. Judge Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind the deadly Simister gang t...
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Look to the Lady // The Gyrth Chalice Mystery
- Jan-1931
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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 make it unique. It was irreplaceable. No thief could ...
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Police at the Funeral
- 1931
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The imperious Great Aunt Caroline Faraday runs her old Cambridge residence like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact that it's 1931. Furniture and meals are heavy and elaborate, both motorcars and morning tea are forbidden on account of...
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Sweet Danger
- Jan-1933
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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 coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly -- and suspicious...
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Sweet Danger // Kingdom of Death // The Fear Sign
- Jan-1933
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Way back during the crusades Richard I presented the Huntingforest family with the tiny Balkan principality of Averna but since then the kingdom has been forgotten, until circumstances in Europe suddenly render it extremely strategically important to...
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Other Man's Danger // The Man of Dangerous Secrets
- Jan-1933
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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 Yard’s inside man. He handles matters which require a deli...
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Death of a Ghost
- 1934
- / Amateur Sleuth
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John Sebastian Lafcadio, is one of the greatest painters of the Edwardian period, and his ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. Lafcadio was not only a brilliantl...
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The Devil and Her Son
- Jan-1936
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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 Coleridge tells a seemingly innocuous lie in order to take a b...
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Flowers for the Judge // Legacy in Blood
- Jan-1936
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Confidential Investigator Albert Campion A tall, thin man with overly large spectacles, he is deceptively unobtrusive when tracking down a killer and uncannily capable of predicting the deadly twists of a criminal's mind. He is unquestionably a ge...
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Coroner's Pidgin // Pearls Before Swine
- Jan-1937
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“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 ParetskyWorld War II is limping to a close and private detective Albert Campion has just returned from ...
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Dancers in Mourning // Who Killed Chloe?
- Jan-1937
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Jimmy Sutane is London's favorite song-and-dance man, headlining at the Argosy Theatre, and beloved by all. Or almost all: Someone has taken to playing increasingly nasty pranks. Albert Campion, that peculiar young man with the knack for solving prob...
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The Case of the Late Pig
- 1937
- / Amateur Sleuth
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THE CORPSE WHO WOULDN'T STAY DEAD When Albert Campion is called upon to investigate a murder in a small town, he discovers that the victim is none other than an old schoolmate, R.I. Peters, a.k.a. Pig, whose funeral he'd attended not six months ea...
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The Fashion in Shrouds
- 1938
- / Amateur Sleuth
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HOMICIDE WITH STYLE Among the beautiful George Wells's suicide was last wiles gossip. But Campion stubbornly refused to close his personal books on the affair. It came down to professional ethics, a commodity rare in aristocratic circles. He had b...
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The Case of the Question Mark
- Jan-1939
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Wool Miss Chloe Pleyell became engaged to Sir Matthew Pearing, K.C., Mr. Albert Campion crossed her name off his private list......
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The Hat Trick
- Jan-1939
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Mr. Campion received the hat as a sentimental tribute. Mrs Wynyard pressed it into his hand at her farewell party at the Braganza on the night before she sailed home to New York....
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A Matter of Form
- Jan-1939
- / Mystery
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The trouble with crime today, remarked Superintendent Stanislaus Oates seriously, is that one almost gets too much of it, if you see what I mean....
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Safe As Houses
- Jan-1939
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Campion came gingerly down the steep staircase of the White Lion Inn at Little Chittering in Sussex with two important queries occupying his mind....
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The Danger Point
- Jan-1939
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Mr. Albert Campion glanced round the dinner table with the very fashionable if somewhat disconcerting mirror top and wondered vaguely why he had been asked, and afterwards.......
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Black Plumes
- 1940
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THE FINE ART OF MURDER Mrs. Gabrielle Ivory was nearly ninety, but she simply had to be told. Skulduggery was afoot at the renowned Ivory Art Gallery in Sallet Square. A series of malicious mishaps was pushing the family business toward ruin. But ...
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Traitor's Purse // The Sabotage Murder Mystery
- Jan-1941
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Albert Campion had had a very bad night. It wasn't just the rain, or the problems with the rental car. It wasn't even waking up in the hospital after the accident -- with no identity. His mind was wiped completely blank, only vague, indistinct nightm...
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Dance of the Years // The Gallantrys
- Jan-1943
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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 fictionalized account of Allingham’s family heritage, which she insisted as the closest recor...
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Pearls Before Swine
- 1945
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A tall, thin man with overly large spectacles, he is deceptively unobtrusive when tracking down a killer and uncannily capable of predicting the deadly twists of a criminal's mind. He is unquestionably a gentleman, but even Lugg, his dauntless valet,...
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Wanted: Someone Innocent
- 1946
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Pretty, impoverished Gillian Brayton is offered a well paid job as a social secretary by an old school friend, the painter and socialite Rita Fayre. The household is lively and bohemian, but the servants imply Gillian is there for mysterious reasons....
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The Mystery Man of Soho
- Dec-1946
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Margery Louise Allingham was an English writer of mystery and detective fiction, best remembered for her stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. She also wrote a number of non-series stories, some under the pseudonym of Maxwell March.The M...
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The Case Book of Mr. Campion
- Jan-1947
- / Mystery
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Contains: The Case of the Question Mark The Crimson Letter The Definite Article The Magic Hat A Matter of Form The Meaning of the Act Safe As Houses...
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More Work for the Undertaker
- 1948
- / Amateur Sleuth
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AND THEN THERE WERE THREE Their parents are dead. Their fortune is lost. And the five Palinode siblings are shunned by their neighbors as hopeless eccentrics. Suddenly, two of them are found dead"under the most suspicious circumstances. The surviv...
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The Tiger in the Smoke // Tiger Loose
- Jan-1952
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DEARLY BELOVED MURDER Lovely Meg Elginbrodde's marriage to self-made millionaire, Geoffrey Levett, promised to be one of the season's happiest affairs. Until Meg began receiving photographs of her late husband, Martin, who had presumably been kille...
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The Patient at Peacocks Hall
- Jan-1954
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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 heartbreak, after losing her childhood swee... -
Safer Than Love
- Jan-1954
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Having married a safe, secure headmaster to escape a more dangerous love, Elizabeth lane soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. She plans to leave Victor and get away from Tinworth, a small provincial town where everyone knows everyone else&#...
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No Love Lost
- 1954
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BEFORE THE NIGHT WAS OVER, ONE OF THEM WOULD BE DEAD There was selfish, beautiful Frances Forde, dying slowly of an overdose of narcotics…and Dr. Ann Fowler, whose lover Francis had stolen. Then there was the man Francis had married, betrayed an...
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The Beckoning Lady
- Jan-1955
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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 summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the...
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The Beckoning Lady // The Estate of the Beckoning Lady
- Jan-1955
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TWO MURDERS TOO MANY Little Doom, the pesky tax-collector, meets his big doom violently -- bashed like a mosquito in an open meadow. Soon after, old Uncle William expires peacefully in his room at The Beckoning Lady. Albert Campion has a hunch that ...
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Hide My Eyes // Tether's End // Ten Were Missing
- Jan-1958
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THE CORPSE WENT BY BUS “The Goff Place mystery” remained unsolved, the body of the murdered pawnbroker never found. On the night of the killing, a bus had parked on the narrow cul-de-sac. Witnesses saw two elderly passengers dozing. Later a gh...
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The China Governess
- 1962
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THE TRUTH THAT KILLS Adopted heir Timothy Kinnit refuses to marry his beloved Julia until he learns the truth about his parentage. But when Albert Campion traces the roots of young Timothy's family tree, he finds them buried in a century-old scand...
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The Mind Readers
- 1965
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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 smugglers, now hides a secret rich and mysterious enoug...
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Cargo of Eagles
- 1968
- / Amateur Sleuth
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HELL ON WHEELS Once the gathering place of pirates and smugglers, the town of Saltey has now been overrun by motorcycle gangs, ex-convicts and a nasty collection of contemporary cutthroats. But a missing treasure and a resurrected local demon enti...
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The Allingham Case-Book
- Jan-1969
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Eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Crime, guaranteed to baffle the most ingenious of armchair detectives -- and even, at times, the imperturbable Albert Campion himself. Enjoy Margery Allingham at her witty best as she spins delicious...
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Tall Story
- Jan-1969
- / General Fiction
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Eighteen succulent mysteries from the Queen of Crime, guaranteed to baffle the most ingenious of armchair detectives - and even, at times, the imperturbable Albert Campion himself. Enjoy Margery Allingham at her witty best as she spins delicious t...
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The Three is a Lucky Number
- Jan-1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Crime that wil...
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Evidence in Camera
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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Face Value
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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Is There a Doctor in the House?
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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The Lieabout
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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Little Miss Know-All
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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The Lying-in-State
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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The Mind's Eye Mystery
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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Mum Knows Best
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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The Pioneers
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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The Psychologist
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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The Snapdragon and the C.I.D
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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They Never Get Caught
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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The Villa Marie Celeste
- 1969
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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 offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Cr...
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One Morning They'll Hang Him
- 1969
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'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...
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The Allingham Minibus // Mr. Campion's Lucky Day and Other Stories
- Mar-1973
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Contains: The Barbarian Bird Thou Never Wert The Correspondents He Preferred Them Sad He Was Asking After You The Man with the Sack Mr. Campion's Lucky Day The Perfect Butler Publicity A Quarter of a Million The Same to Us The Secret ...
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The Oaken Heart
- Jul-1987
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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 remarkable firsthand account—from the acc...
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The Return of Mr. Campion
- Oct-1989
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‘Nowadays, the Mystery goes everywhere.’ In this fantastic collection of thirteen short stories, Margery Allingham explores both the Mystery and the other genres it has allowed her to write. From a Christmastime story and a portrait of her ...
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Money To Burn
- Jul-2005
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“An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun
#1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...
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Arthur's Quest
- Oct-2017
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Published posthumously by the author's sons, The Grey Haired Knights is a series of four whimsical fantasy novels set in the present day and drawing on the legend of King Arthur for their inspiration. The books feature four old codgers trapped by...
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Look To The Lady
- Jan-2021
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“Wonderfully plotted . . . A marvelous mixture of witchcraft, sacred relics and ancient oaths. [Allingham was a] rare and precious talent.” -- The Washington Post Estranged from his father, young Percival St. John Wykes Gyr...
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Mr Campion and Others
A baker's dozen of cases, each putting Albert Campion through his paces. In this miscellany of villainy, our unconventional sleuth must contand with misbehaving debutantes, sinister smuggling rings, a Dowager Countess who's not all that she ...