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Beckoning Lady, The by Allingham Margery
Category: Fiction
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 unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.
Cargo of Eagles by Margery Allingham
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes. Once the haunt of smugglers, it now hides a secret rich ...Show more
Coroner's Pidgin by Allingham Margery
Category: Fiction
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery? A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY;;Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ‘true queen’ of the classic murder mystery?;;Just retur ...Show more
Dancers In Mourning by Margery Allingham
Category: Fiction
This book offers 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 apparent vendetta against the music hall darling - Albert Campion. Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate an ...Show more
Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 sealed paintings is the bequest he leaves to his widow - together with the instruction that she unveil one canvas each year before a carefully sel ...Show more
Hide My Eyes by Margery Allingham
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 who must have witnessed the crime . . .The trail leads to an eccentric museum in west London, and to a scrapyard in the ...Show more
Look To The Lady by Allingham Margery
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 Campion, who reveals that the ancient Chalice entrusted to Val's family is being targeted by a ruthless rin ...Show more
More Work For The Undertaker by Allingham Margery
Category: Fiction
In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion 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 a vanishing coffin. Mea ...Show more
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays by Cecily Gayford (Editor); Ellis Peters (Contribution by); Ruth Rendell (Contribution by); Arthur Conan Doyle (Contribution by); Dorothy L. Sayers (Contribution by); Margery Allingham (Contribution by); John Dickson Carr (Contribution by); G. K. Chesterton (Contribution by); Michael Innes (Contribution by); Julian Symons (Contribution by)
Category: Crime Fiction
It's the middle of summer. On Cornish sea-fronts, happy children grip melting ice-creams. In the south of France, sunlight filters through leaves as families picnic in the shade. And in the fashionable resorts of the Mediterranean, the beautiful people sun themselves on picture-postcard beaches.And in t ...Show more
Mystery Mile by ALLINGHAM MARGERY
Category: Fiction
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 help of the enigmatic and unorthodox amateur sleuth, Albert Campion. After Campion bundles Lobbett off to a country house i ...Show more
Police At The Funeral by Allingham Margery
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 when Cousin Andrew of the illustrious Faraday family disappears without a trace. No time is wasted in summ ...Show more
Six Against the Yard (a Detection Club Anthology) by The Detection Club; Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
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, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved. Is the 'perfect murder' possi ...Show more