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The husband and life-long collaborator of Margery Allingham, one of the truly great British crime writers, Philip ('Pip') Youngman-Carter was a prolific journalist, artist, book-jacket designer and short-story writer. For the first time, Tales on the Off-Beat collects the best of his short fiction, from rare stories written whilst a serving army officer in the Western Desert in WWII to his best-known tales of the unexpected, the mysterious and the downright spooky, which appeared in Argosy and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1959-1963. Edited by Mike Ripley, who completed Youngman-Carter's unfinished Albert Campion novel as Mr Campion's Farewell in 2014, with an Introduction by Barry Pike, Chairman of the Margery Allingham Society.
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Tales on the Off-Beat, Philip Youngman Carter
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- 2015
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- Title
- Tales on the Off-Beat
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Philip Youngman Carter
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 206
- ISBN10
- 1909619256
- ISBN13
- 9781909619258
- Series
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
- Description
- The husband and life-long collaborator of Margery Allingham, one of the truly great British crime writers, Philip ('Pip') Youngman-Carter was a prolific journalist, artist, book-jacket designer and short-story writer. For the first time, Tales on the Off-Beat collects the best of his short fiction, from rare stories written whilst a serving army officer in the Western Desert in WWII to his best-known tales of the unexpected, the mysterious and the downright spooky, which appeared in Argosy and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1959-1963. Edited by Mike Ripley, who completed Youngman-Carter's unfinished Albert Campion novel as Mr Campion's Farewell in 2014, with an Introduction by Barry Pike, Chairman of the Margery Allingham Society.