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Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Way back during the crusades Richard I presented the Huntingforest family with the tiny Balkan state of Averna but since then the Kingdom has been forgotten, until circumstances in Europe suddenly render it extremely strategically important to the British Government. They hire unconventional detective A ...Show more
Sweet Danger (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Margery Allingham
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
The China Governess: A Mystery by Margery Allingham
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Timothy Kinnit needs Albert Campion's help. He is rich, handsome and successful but his past is a mystery to him and he needs Campion to find out how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of his own - involving a mur ...Show more
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
Category: Fiction
This is 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 group of London's brightest young things accepted an invitation to the mansion of Black Dudley. S ...Show more
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
Category: Crime Fiction
This is a Vintage Murder Mystery - With a New Introduction by Susan Hill. Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose on the streets of London once again. I ...Show more
The Tiger in the Smoke (Heroes and Villains) by Margery Allingham
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroes and Villians Ser.
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 rumours are true- Jack Havoc, charismatic outlaw, knife-wielding killer and ingenious jail-breaker, is on the loose once again.As Havoc stalks ...Show more
The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'One of Allingham's very best' ObserverEric Crowther collected secrets and used them as weapons. Delighting in nothing more than torturing those around him with what he knew, there is no shortage of suspects when he is found dead in the White Cottage. Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry will hav ...Show more
Tiger in the Smoke (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Margery Allingham; Sara Paretsky (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Celebrated 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 vital importance to His Majesty's government before his accident. On the run from the police and unable to recognise e ...Show more