Margery Allingham
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English
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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 of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm-cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise-and all rumors hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades...
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English
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"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 Albert Campion's curiosity-and helps Scotland Yard lure him into a case of family dysfunction. The seemingly destitute woman is none other than a member of the eccentric Palinode family, which has recently lost two of its members. The police suspect a poisoner...
23) Death of a Ghost
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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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, a famous artist has left twelve paintings to be sold after his death. Each year, one painting is revealed to kick off London’s art season. But this release party—bringing family, friends, critics,...
To vex his rival from the grave, a famous artist has left twelve paintings to be sold after his death. Each year, one painting is revealed to kick off London’s art season. But this release party—bringing family, friends, critics,...
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Bloomsbury Pub Plc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Classic Crime from the Golden Age, the first in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling's favourite Golden Age author.George Abbershaw is set for a social weekend at Black Dudley manor, hosted by Wyatt Petrie and his elderly uncle Colonel Combe, who enjoys the company of Bright Young Things. With Meggie Oliphant in attendance, George looks forward to the chance of getting closer to the girl he's set his heart on. But when murder...
25) The Oaken Heart
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English
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Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy ('Auburn') when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens' post and a First Aid centre, and Allingham herself became responsible for 275 East London evacuees in a rural community of just over 600. Commissioned by American publishing friends to recount what life was like, she began The Oaken Heart in the autumn...
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"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 his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew.
In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light...
27) Black plumes
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English
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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 at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents-a Kang-Tse vase broken, a specially commissioned catalog burned, and now a painting slashed-has young Frances Ivory on edge. She suspects that the instigator is her stepsister's husband, Robert Madrigal, but...
28) Cargo of eagles
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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 coast is invaded by bikers and a parade of peculiar visitors, a newly released prisoner is rumored to be in the area, Mr. Lugg has bought a bungalow there, the Saltey Demon is on the loose again . . . and Albert Campion is looking for the disappearance...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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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 in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought together an impressive array of Golden Age Mystery authors. Their projects included The Floating Admiral , a whodunit in which twelve different writers contributed individual chapters, as well as Ask a Policeman, another collaboration...
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English
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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 in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought together an impressive array of Golden Age Mystery authors. Their projects included The Floating Admiral, a whodunit in which twelve different writers contributed individual chapters, as well as Ask a Policeman, another collaboration...
33) Murder Most Foul
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English
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A collection of classic crime short fiction - story listing: Bluebeard's Bathtub by Margery Allingham read by Derek Jacobi; Who Killed Zebedee? by Wilkie Collins read by Patrick Malahide; An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr read by Brian Cox and The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle read by Edward Hardwicke.