Pearls Before Swine: An Albert Campion Mystery - Softcover

Allingham, Margery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786703385 ISBN 13: 9780786703388

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1996

Synopsis

It was most unfortunate that Edna, Dowager Marchioness of Carados, found a strange woman in her son's bed the night before his wedding--it was even more unfortunate that the woman was dead, and that Edna decided to take the body to Albert Campion. He wants to believe that the Marquess of Carados isn't the woman's killer, but a string of baffling clues make him think otherwise.

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

“Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.”
–Sara Paretsky

“Margaret Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world.”
–Tatler

Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786703385
• ISBN 13: 9780786703388
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216