Margery Allingham Omnibus - Softcover

Allingham, Margery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140060588 ISBN 13: 9780140060584

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1983

Synopsis

1982 Penguin Books oversized trade PB. This volume includes the detective novels Mystery Mile, the Crime at Black Dudley and Look to the Lady. Allingham's nerdy detective, Albert Campion, has few social skills but a razor sharp mind. "His friends invariably underestimated Campion-so did his victims."

About this title

About the Author:

MARGERY ALLINGHAM was born in London in 1904. She sold her first story at age 8 and published her first novel before turning 20. She married the artist, journalist and editor Philip Youngman Carter in 1927. In 1928 Allingham published her first detective story, The White Cottage Mystery, and the following year, in The Crime at Black Dudley, she introduced the detective who was to become the hallmark of her sophisticated crime novels and murder mysteries -- Albert Campion. Famous for her London thrillers, such as Hide My Eyes and The Tiger in the Smoke, Margery Allingham has been compared to Dickens in her evocation of the city's shady underworld. Acclaimed by crime novelists such as P.D. James, Allingham is counted alongside Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Gladys Mitchell as a pre-eminent Golden Age crime writer. Margery Allingham died in 1966.

Review:

"For the connoisseur of detective fiction" * Sunday Times * "Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered" -- P.D. James "Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light" -- Agatha Christie "Always of the elect, Margery Allingham now towers above them" * Observer * "The real queen of crime" * Guardian *

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0140060588
• ISBN 13: 9780140060584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 589