Margery Allingham

A classic collection of mystery stories: With skillful plotting laced with tongue-in-cheek humour, Allingham never ceases to intrigue and surprise (Daily Mail). This volume offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Crime that will baffle the most ingenious of armchair detectives—and even, at times, the imperturbable sleuth Albert Campion himself. Enjoy one of England's great golden-era writers at her...

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 catalogue burned, and now a painting slashed—has young Frances Ivory...

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 delight at being reunited with the Queen of Crime's most thrilling detective, Albert Campion. From capers and traditional mysteries to slice-of-life stories, romantic tales, and even a Christmas story, this...

Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with one of the 'Queens of Crime', Margery Allingham, and her fiendishly brilliant, brutal, but deeply entertaining novella of Middle England, in the midst of a murder spree. A fiendishly brutal but brilliant, charming English murder mystery, from Agatha Christie's favourite writer - the criminally underrated, Margery Allingham. Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the...