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Margery Allingham
"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 on a bench arouses…
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Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room. Suspicion immediately falls on his wife’s lover, the junior partner in…
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Detective, Albert Campion goes into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And, if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and…
Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery? Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, private detective Albert Campion is relaxing in his…
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…
During the crusades, Richard I presented the Huntingforest family with the tiny Balkan state of Averna. Since that time the kingdom has been forgotten, until circumstances in Europe suddenly render…
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Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to…
John 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…
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY When 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…
A quiet, ruthless killer strikes in London’s theatreland. Superintendent Luke thinks he has seen the pattern before. Mr Campion wonders what became of the old couple in the country bus…
In this collection of 13 short stories, Margery Allingham explores both the Mystery and the other genres it has allowed her to write. From a classic capers to wonderful literary…
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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 peers, Margery…
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"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…
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…
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's sister is a…
""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…
"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…
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…
"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 successful, but…
A lively British mystery from "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).
Strange things are happening in Saltey. The little village on the Essex…
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…
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 McCall Smith).
Private detective Albert 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…
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…
Classic Crime from the Golden Age, the first in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling’s favorite Golden Age author.
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 Campion heads to Cambridge…
Crime and Mystery The slashing of a valuable painting at the renowned Ivory Gallery in London, one of the most prestigious art galleries in the world - followed by the…
Black'erchief Dick, is many of the old books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work…
Classic Crime from the Golden Age, the second in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling’s favorite Golden Age author.
"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…
Confronted by the beautiful, ill wife of her ex-lover, a jilted doctor could hardly be blamed for wishing the wife well out of the way. But it’s not as simple…
First, there is a skeleton in a jacket, then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body, Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth. Both the skeleton and the corpse…
Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes. Once the haunt of smugglers, now it hides a secret rich and mysterious…
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…
Agatha 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 when Cousin Andrew of…
Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind the deadly Simister gang. After four attempts on his life, he ends up seeking the…
Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. It takes all Campion’s coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.
Amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of…
Appearance and reality are not always the same. Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome and well-bred. He seems to have everything. Then, on the eve of his elopement, he learns that…
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 house…
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).
To vex his rival from the grave…
Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and…
Fleeing London for the supposed safety of Suffolk, Val and Campion come face to face with events of a perilous and puzzling nature - Campion might be accustomed to outwitting…
In this miscellany of villainy, our unconventional sleuth must contend with misbehaving debutantes, sinister smuggling rings, a Dowager Countess who’s not all that she seems, an SOS message daubed in…
A fog is creeping through the weary streets of London - so too are whispers that the Tiger is back in town, undetected by the law, untroubled by morals. And…
The first killing took place at a crowded art show, in full view of the cream of London society. For the second killing, only the victim and the murderer were…
Detective Albert Campion goes to the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. With poisoning, anonymous letters and a vanishing coffin, Campion dices with danger in his…
Murder turns a weekend house part at Black Dudley Manor into a deadly affair when the host is discovered brutally slain. Detective Albert Campion is there to sift through the…
