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- Blackkerchief Dick: A Tale of Mersea Island, 1923
- The White Cottage Mystery, 1928
- The Crime at Black Dudley (The Black Dudley Murder), 1929
- Mystery Mile, 1930
- Look to the Lady (The Gyrth Chalice Mystery), 1931
- Police at the Funeral, 1931
- Sweet Danger (The Fear Sign), 1933
- Death of a Ghost, 1934
- Flowers for the Judge, 1936
- Dancers in Mourning, 1937
- Mr. Campion, Criminologist, 1937
- The Case of the Late Pig, 1937
- The Fashion in Shrouds, 1938
- Black Plumes, 1940
- The Oaken Heart, 1941
- Traitor's Purse, 1941
- Dance of the Years (The Gallantrys), 1943
- Pearls Before Swine, 1945
- More Work for the Undertaker, 1948
- Deadly Duo (Take Two at Bedtime), 1949
- The Tiger in the Smoke, 1952
- No Love Lost, 1954
- The Estate of the Beckoning Lady, 1955
- Hide My Eyes (Tether's End), 1958
- The China Governess, 1962
- The Mysterious Mr. Campion, 1963
- The Mind Readers, 1965
- Cargo of Eagles, 1968
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| The Fashion in Shrouds | 1 |
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Margery Allingham
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Margery Allingham was a wonderful, sharp, clever writer of classic English mysteries. I'm not sure if any of her books are even in print in the US, but they should be.
ddjames November 16th, 2006 10:50 AM PST
Margery Allingham is my all-time favorite mystery writer. I love her combination of wit, characterization, and plotting. Of all the Golden Age writers, she was the one who grew and changed the most over time as a writer. She is currently being brought back into print by Felony & Mayhem Press in New York.
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Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904 into a family of writers who thought that writing was the only sensible profession. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published when she was only 19. She created Albert Campion in 1929 in The Crime at Black Dudley, and he became her series sleuth. She was one of the "Great Ladies" of the Golden Age English detective novel, along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. H.R.F. Keating wrote of her: "A cookbook phrase perhaps best describes [her works]: boil until a rich consistency is reached."
Allingham married artist Philip Youngman Carter in 1927, and he collaborated with her on devising some of her plots. He also designed some of the dust jackets for her books. After her death from cancer in 1966, he completed the novel Cargo of Eagles, then went on to write two more Campion novels before his own death.
bookbug November 23rd, 2005 03:54 PM PST