Margery Allingham Books

A collection of stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion - hero of a BBC series - from what many consider to be the golden age of the detective story. Margery Allingham was the author of over twenty novels and story collections, including "Sweet Danger" and "Police at the Funeral".

Private detective Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes. Once the haunt of smugglers, it now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter - and someone in the village is willing to terrorise, murder and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves.

“How many of the detective stories you read do you remember?” Not very many. And there Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. In this collection of eighteen short stories, Queen of Crime Margery Allingham dabbles in the occult, the mysterious, and the murderous. Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories with astute characterisations, brilliant humour, and her classic wit. With a tribute by Agatha Christie, this Golden Age collection is sure to dazzle and delight fans of this master of detective fiction. The Allingham Minibus was first published in 1973 and has also been published as Mr Campion’s Lucky Day and Other Stories.

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?Three of Margery Allingham's classic crime stories captured in one volume, perfect for aficionados and new readers alike.A skeleton in a dinner jacket, a man murdered in a deckchair, a dead man spotted wandering in the London fog... private detective Albert Campion is called upon to solve some most unusual crimes. This omnibus features three of the charming amateur sleuth's most intriguing cases: Sweet Danger, The Case of the Late Pig and The Tiger in the Smoke.As urbane as Lord Wimsey…as ingenious as Poirot… Meet one of crime fiction’s Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion

Deadly Duo presents two superb novellas of murder most mysterious, Wanted: Someone Innocent and Last Act.

This collection features five notable works of classic crime fiction, showcasing the talents of prominent authors in the genre. The stories delve into intricate plots, exploring themes of morality, justice, and the human psyche. Josephine Tey's "The Franchise Affair" presents a gripping narrative centered on a wrongful accusation of kidnapping, examining societal prejudices and the quest for truth. Michael Innes's "Hamlet, Revenge!" blends elements of Shakespearean drama with a modern mystery, as a detective navigates a web of intrigue surrounding a theatrical production. Margery Allingham's "The Crime at Black Dudley" introduces the character of Albert Campion, an amateur sleuth who uncovers a murder during a weekend gathering at a country estate, highlighting themes of deception and class dynamics. Edmund Crispin's "The Moving Toyshop" features the eccentric detective Gervase Fen, who investigates a puzzling crime that combines humor with intellectual challenge. Lastly, G. K. Chesterton's "The Innocence of Father Brown" introduces the titular priest-detective, whose keen insight into human nature allows him to solve various crimes, emphasizing themes of faith and morality. Each story offers a unique perspective on crime and detection, reflecting the diverse approaches within classic literature.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. No time is wasted in summoning Albert Campion and his sleuthing skills away from the bustle of Piccadilly to investigate - but little does he expect to be greeted by a band of eccentric relatives all at daggers with each other.

In The Patient at Peacocks Hall a young and beautiful woman doctor fights to save the life of her rival; lost poison seems damning evidence, and dramatic revelations follow each other in a neatly constructed story of suspense, involving a film-star, a mysterious Frenchman, and other material for village gossip. Safer than Love is set in a preparatory school at the beginning of the summer holidays. The headmaster’s young wife has her own reasons for prevaricating when inquisitive neighbours in the small town inquire about her husband’s whereabouts. (Publisher’s description) Contents: Patient at Peacocks Hall — Safer than love

Aristocratic detective Albert Campion is called upon by the British government to establish ownership of the tiny, oil-rich principality of Averna on the Adriatic Coast. The titled but impoverished Fitton family lay claim to it, but the deeds are nowhere to be found. With the help of his loyal chums and sidekick, retired cat burglar Magersfontein Lugg, Campion must pit his wits against a criminal financier and his heavies in order to unearth the truth.A quintessential Golden Age detective story and utterly gripping thriller, Sweet Danger displays Margery Allingham at her absolute best.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Campion returns from three years' work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his manservant, has brought him an unusual gift: the black silk nightdress-clad body of a dead woman, an apparent suicide. Wanting only to get away to a well-deserved rest, Campion must instead assist Detective Chief Inspector Oates and Superintendent Yeo in unravelling a tangled plot of deception and murder as the war draws to its conclusion.

One morning, Tom Barnabas of the publishers Barnabas & Company left his house as usual, then simply vanished. Twenty years later, his cousin Paul, now head of the company, meets an untimely death. To solve Paul's murder, Campion has to go back two decades and sort through a legacy of treachery to solve a case sure to be one of his most difficult.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancee, Campion struggles desperately to put the pieces together while the very fate of England is at stake.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'.In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWhen song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling - Albert Campion.

A historical novel about smugglers set on Mersea Island in the 17th century inspired by a series of seances held by the Allingham family while on holiday on Mersea.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. After another body, private detective Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth... Georgia's best friend just happens to be Valentine, a top couturiere and Campion's sister. In order to protect Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail and ruthless murder.

Written during the 'noisy, bomb-filled winter' of 1940, Margery Allingham's 'The Oaken Heart' records the events and emotions of the Essex village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy during the war. This illustrated edition of features previously unpublished diaries, letters and photos.

Originally published: London: Jarrolds, 1931.

Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. The enigmatic amateur sleuth bundles the Judge off to the country house of Mystery Mile, where it's a race against time to keep the Simister posse at bay - and to pinpoint the identity of the mastermind behind their criminal empire...

The path that a murderer takes to reach his victim is fraught with risk. So whoever killed Matt Phillipson on that rainy night in London’s theatreland must ensure that he was not spotted. When Polly Tassie, owner of a museum of curiosities, is offered a ride home in a taxi, she does not realise she is being deliberately removed from the scene. Inspector Luke and the deceptively sharp-eyed Mr Campion make a bizarre but accurate connection that leads them along a mysterious chain of clues: that the two old people huddled on a bus as the murderer went to work were not in fact witnesses, but waxworks… ‘The book’s great, gripping virtue is its Dickensian love for London, and its Dickensian gusto: they give an extra dimension to a splendid thriller.’ —Spectator

Eighteen succulent mysteries from the Queen of Crime, guaranteed to baffle the most ingenious of armchair detectives - and even, at times, the imperturbable Albert Campion himself. Enjoy Margery Allingham at her witty best as she spins delicious tales of high risk heists and domestic deceptions in this exquisite short story collection. CONTENTS : Tall Story Three is a Lucky Number The Villa Marie Celeste The Psychologist Little Miss Know-All One Morning They'll Hang Him The Lieabout Face Value Evidence in Camera Joke Over The Lying-in-State The Pro and the Con Is There a Doctor in the House? The Border-Line Case They Never Get Caught The Mind's Eye Mystery Mum Knows Best The Snapdragon and the C. I. D. 'A perfectly splendid collection of short stories, richly imbred with that unique flavour Miss Allingham distilled so well' - H. R. F. Keating

Inspector David Blest has two choices, jump or die. Trapped aboard a motor boat with a pistol to his head and the life of his unconscious companion on the line, he'd better make his decision quick. On the trail of the mysterious death of a gentleman in the Senior Buffs Club, young Inspector Blest is led to a fashionable seaside resort on the English coast, where the locals appear all too happy to help his investigation. Things take a turn when Blest meets Judy Wellington, an apparently sickly young woman desperate to escape her past. But who is Judy Wellington? What exactly is she running from? And how has Blest found himself the murderer's next target?

Timothy Kinnit had everything - wealth and good looks. Then it happened: he learned he was adopted. His search in London for the facts of his birth involves a tale of evacuation and a mentally deficient youth, drags up a murder and sets off another, before Albert Campion can reveal the truth.

Five adventures, all featuring the perennially popular Albert Campion, prefaced by the author's affectionate profile of this mercurial character.

Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peters's body goes missing. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.

An old-time baker’s dozen of stories, in which Mr Albert Campion—with or without the help of the lugubrious Superintendent Oates—relieves friends and acquaintances from the inconveniences of assault, blackmail, confidence tricks and the like. As the Superintendent remarked at the close of a short, sharp case of espionage: ‘Campion, you frighten me. Something looks after you.’ Something does, and it’s generally Campion’s legion of disreputable friendsContents: The widow — The name on the wrapper — The hat trick — The question mark — The old man in the window — The white elephant — The Frenchman’s gloves — The longer view — Safe as houses — The definite article — The meaning of the act — A matter of form — The danger point

The slashing of a valuable painting at the renowned Ivory Gallery in London, followed by the murder of the proprietor's son-in-law, Robert, sets the stage for another finely tuned Allingham mystery. The proprietor's mother, 90-year-old Gabrielle Ivory, holds the key to the web of intrigue and danger that permeates the gallery. Previously published by Bantam.

The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the Longman Simplified English Series. They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate.

THE FIRST CAMPION MYSTERY 'Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light' Agatha Christie A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and a groupof London's brightest young things accepted an invitation to the mansion of Black Dudley. Skulduggery is most certainly afoot, and the party-goers soon realise that they're trapped in the secluded house. Amongst them is a stranger who promises to unravel the villainous plots behind their incarceration - but can George and his friends trust the peculiar young man who calls himself Albert Campion?

The great artist John Lafcadio has been dead for 18 years and for the last 8 years his wife has organised a one painting exhibition of his remaining unseen work to keep his reputation alive. It is at the eighth gathering, that a young artist, Thomas Dacre, is murdered. Once the obvious suspects, Dacre's girlfriend Linda Lafcadio, and the art dealer Max Fustian, who makes a seemingly frivolous confession are dismissed, the case remains unsolved and hushed up. However, when the works and possessions of the murdered artist start to disappear and a further murder takes place in the Lafcadio extended household, the detective Albert Campion learns more about the dead artist's paintings and the identity of the murderer.

Mr. Campion heads to Carfax to visit his wayward niece, but when a missing teacher reappears after nine days and Campion's car is "inadvertently" damaged it is clear that something is not right in the English village.

refined, cultured upper class dabbling in sleuthing and darned good at it. The kind of book to be read after dinner with a fire going in the fireplace, a glass of sherry and a biscuit or two. A delightful British whodunit whether read or watched.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it.

Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city’s November smog before it is too late. Cover image from 1972 reprint

Seven suspects all have an excellent motive for killing Eric Crowther, the mysterious recluse. He knew their secrets. They lived in fear of him. And they all wanted him dead. Only one person had the courage to pull the trigger. The quest for that one person takes Detective Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry half way across Europe tand into the suspects' past before a surprising discovery is made. Margery Allingham's first detective story was originally published as a newspaper serial. Her sister Joyce skilfully revisited the text, transforming it into a masterpiece of detective fiction untarnished by time.

The follow up to the bestselling crime collection Murder under the Christmas Tree

Margery Allingham was a Golden Age detective novelist, a “Queen of Crime” alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. However her last completed book The Relay was not a novel but an account of the practical and emotional ways in which she and her sister approached the end-of-life care for three elderly relatives in 1959-61. Words like “carer”, “sheltered housing”, “granny annex” were not even in the language when Margery wrote this ground-breaking little book. It was tragic that she herself died in June 1966 before it could be included in one of the first-ever UK campaigns for improvements in the care of the elderly. The Relay has never previously been published.Julia Jones, Margery’s biographer and co-founder of the nationally successful John’s Campaign, believes the ideas in The Relay are as relevant today as when it was first conceived. Julia is a dementia carer and has interspersed reflections on her current experience with Margery’s conclusions 50 years ago. There are currently 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK, many (though not all) of them old. There are hundreds of thousands of families, friends, neighbours and colleagues who are experiencing the effects of this disease as well as increasing frailty and the other difficulties of age. Many, like Julia Jones, will be asking themselves how they can care as well for their loved ones at the end of their lives as we try to do at the beginning.

Zuerst wurde der Sekretär erschossen, dann der Butler vergiftet, und schließlich hatte der Chauffeur einen mysteriösen Unfall. Die Gerüchte um den Amerikaner Crowdy Lobbett, der bereits vier Mordanschläge überlebt hat, nehmen zu. Widerwillig lässt sich der alte Richter von seinem Sohn auf eine Schiffsreise nach England überreden. Doch während der Überfahrt wird erneut auf sein Leben angesetzt. Albert Campion, zufällig an Bord, rettet ihn in letzter Sekunde. Nach der Ankunft in London entgeht der Richter erneut einem Anschlag, und sein Sohn erkennt, dass er ohne Hilfe die Sicherheit seines Vaters nicht gewährleisten kann. Er wendet sich an Campion, der Lobbett vorübergehend bei Verwandten in Suffolk in Sicherheit bringen soll. Doch bald wird klar, dass dies nicht ausreicht. Der geheimnisvolle Kriminelle Simister, den der Richter ein Leben lang bekämpft hat, ist ihm auf den Fersen. Laut Legende entkommt niemand Simister, nicht einmal ein fähiger Privatdetektiv wie Albert Campion. Margery Allingham, eine der großen Autorinnen klassischer englischer Kriminalromane, hat mit ihren 20 Albert-Campion-Romanen ein breites Publikum erreicht.

Er erwacht in einem sterilen Krankenhausbett und hört im Korridor gedämpfte Stimmen. Jemand sagt: “Man wird ihn hängen, nehme ich an.” Instinktiv weiß er, daß von ihm die Rede ist. Aber was er getan hat und wer er ist, weiß er nicht. Verzweifelt beginnt er nach seiner verlorenen Identität und gleichzeitig nach den Einzelteilen des verwirrenden und gefährlichen Puzzles zu suchen, dessen Sinn er ergründen muß. Bruchstückweise bringen ihn die Puzzlesteine zur erschreckenden Erkenntnis, daß es gilt, eines der größten und bestorganisierten Verbrechen aller Zeiten zu verhindern, und daß es dazu schon beinahe zu spät ist… Ein Fall für Albert Campion. “Margery Allingham verfügt über einen beträchtlichen, jedoch beherrschten Sinn für Humor, sie versteht es, mit sparsamen Mitteln Wesentliches anzudeuten und schreibt einen blendenden Stil. Außerdem hat sie einen ausgeprägten Sinn für das Phantastische und ist nie langweilig.” The Times Literary Supplement Margery Allingham (1904-1966) lebte in Essex und ist neben Agatha Christie und Ngaio Marsh eine der großen Autorinnen klassischer englischer Kriminalromane. Ihre 20 Albert-Campion-Romane wurden von Malaya bis Peru gelesen – höchste Zeit, daß sie auch den europäischen Kontinent erobert.

»Die wahre Queen of Crime« The Guardian Ein weiterer Auftritt für Privatdetektiv Albert Campion – er findet sich auf einem ehrwürdigen Herrensitz in Cambridge wieder, wo das Verbrechen Einzug hält. Zwei der Bewohner sind bereits auf mysteriöseArt und Weise ums Leben gekommen, und die Kette erschreckender Ereignisse will einfach nicht abreissen. Ein rasanter Fall aus dem goldenen Zeitalter des Kriminalromans. Als Albert Campion von der Verlobten eines alten Studienfreundes hinzugezogen wird, um das Verschwinden ihres Onkels zu untersuchen, rechnet er kaum mit derFlut von Todesfällen und Gefahren, die sich unter den bizarren Bewohnern von Socrates Close in Cambridge ereignen. Eine Leiche mit Kopfschuss wird gefunden. Eine Tante wird tot in ihrem Bett entdeckt, vergiftet durch ihre morgendliche Tasse Tee. Und so neigt sich die Familie Faraday immer weiter dem Untergang zu. Jeder in dieser Familie ist verdächtig, jeder hat etwas zu verbergen. Campion und der ihm gut bekannte Polizist Stanislaus Oates müssen vorsichtig vorgehen und alte Familiengeheimnisse ergründen, um diesen Fall zu lösen.

Povídky A. Christieové, M. Allinghamové a D. L. Sayersové. Výbor sestavili F. Jungwirth a V. Procházka. Povídky: Záhada španělské truhly – Agatha Christie Slavičí hnízdo – Agatha Christie Duše krupiérova – Agatha Christie Čtyři podezřelí – Agatha Christie Společnice – Agatha Christie Utopená – Agatha Christie Bylina smrti – Agatha Christie Zakrýt si oči – Margery Allingham Ohavná historka o muži s měděnými prsty – Dorothy Leigh Sayers Cynická aféra hazardního hráče – Dorothy Leigh Sayers Učené dobrodružství s dračí hlavou – Dorothy Leigh Sayers Nerozřešená záhada s mužem bez tváře – Dorothy Leigh Sayers Senzační dobrodružství v jeskyni Ali Babově – Dorothy Leigh Sayers

Soubor tří klasických detektivek známé anglické autorky, která své příběhy většinou situuje do prostředí anglických venkovských sídel na počátku 20. století. Hlavním hrdinou všech tří příběhů je poněkud záhadný detektiv amatér, který svůj aristokratický původ skrývá za občanské jméno Albert Campion a bystrý intelekt maskuje zdánlivou bezstarostnou naivitou. V prostředí tradiční vyšší venkovské společnosti řeší s jistotou a nadhledem tři záhadné kriminální případy, v nichž jsou neoddělitelnou součástí zločinu staré rodové rekvizity spojené s dávnou pochmurnou pověstí. Příběhy kromě zápletky poskytují i poněkud stylizovaný obraz anglického venkova v prvních desetiletích 20. století s typickou atmosférou a tradicí starých rodinných sídel Povídky: Vražda v Black Dudley; Záhada kalichu rodiny Gyrthů; Nebezpečný náklad

Detektivní příběhy z prostředí Londýna, vyšetřované svérázným pátračem-amatérem. Děj románu Móda skrytá v rubáši autorka zasadila do atraktivního módního salónu a řeší se v něm několik vražd; druhý román Koronerův případ se odehrává ve vyšších společenských kruzích a zavražděná mladá žena se objeví dokonce rovnou v ložnici Alberta Campiona, ústřední postavy. Intelektuál a aristokrat Campion je zatahován do podivných příhod jaksi proti své vůli a k jejich řešení přistupuje s mírně nezúčastněným odstupem. Nejedná se o klasické detektivky, spíše o společenské konverzační romány s detektivními prvky, zručně napsané, ale pro dnešního čtenáře přece jen příliš zdlouhavé a překombinované. Autorka sice dobře vystihla atmosféru Londýna 30. a 40. let, její vyprávění však nepostrádá potřebné napětí a uplývá pomalu jako voda v Temži.

Mezi společenskou smetánkou je jako ryba ve vodě, podsvětí zná jako své boty. Za nenápadným zevnějškem Alberta Campiona, dlouhána s velkými brýlemi a prostořekým sluhou, se skrývá chladný intelekt, schopný odhalit úmysly vraha... Campion je literárním výtvorem klasické představitelky detektivního románu, pravověrné nástupkyně Agathy Christie. Svazek nabízí tři příběhy plné anglického vtipu a londýnské mlhy: detektiv postupně řeší záhadu zmizení v zamčeném pokoji, sérii podivných úmrtí v rodině výstředníků a historii tajemného dvojníka a trojí vraždy. Povídky: Čtvrtý rozměr Případ prázdné rakve Tygr v mlze... celý text

Námětem tohoto detektivního románu známé anglické detektivkářky je stíhání zločineckého gangu, který za druhé světové války těží z náletů na Londýn, vyčkává stěhování uměleckých sbírek, přepadává transporty a získává tak při desítkách vražd nesmírné jmění.

Příběh ze starého Londýna, který autorka důvěrně zná a ještě ho umí nádherně popsat. Příběh se odehrává v bohémské čtvrti zvané malé Benátky.

Detektivní román z anglického prostředí. Soukromý detektiv Campion je anonymními dopisy vyprovokován k účasti na pátrání po pachateli dvou vražd a jedné nedokonané, přičemž orientačním bodem je pro něho skutečnost, že v jednom ze dvou zavražděných mužů poznává člověka, jemuž byl již jednou na pohřbu, a posléze, že se mrtvola tohoto muže v kritický okamžik zase ztrácí.