Albert Campion Mysteries Series

This series follows a suave and intelligent detective of noble birth as he navigates the complexities of crime in vibrant London, often accompanied by his loyal assistant. The author's masterful prose and keen eye for atmospheric detail bring each mystery to life with suspense and intellectual rigor. Readers will delight in the intricate plots, nuanced character studies, and subtle wit woven throughout the investigations. It's a quintessential collection for those who appreciate classic detective fiction with a sophisticated, timeless appeal.

Recommended Reading Order

The crime at Black Dudley
Margery Allingham
240 pages
9 hours of reading
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?
1
3.7
Mystery Mile
Margery Allingham
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...
2
3.9
Look to the Lady
Margery Allingham
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble.
3
3.9
Police at the Funeral
Margery Allingham
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.
4
3.9
Sweet Danger
Margery Allingham
288 pages
11 hours of reading
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.
5
4.0
Death of a Ghost
Margery Allingham
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.
6
3.5
Flowers for the Judge
Margery Allingham
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.
7
4.0
The Case of the Late Pig
Margery Allingham
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her `a shining light'. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.
8
3.7
Dancers in mourning
Margery Allingham
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.
9
3.7
The Fashion in Shrouds
Margery Allingham
288 pages
11 hours of reading
The novel centres on the famous actress Georgia Wells, and her romantic conquests. One of them is Alan Dell, who at first appears to be in love with the fashion designer Valentine Ferris, who happens to be Albert Campion's sister. Then Georgia's second husband is poisoned, and there is strange news of his predecessor. It is a novel filled with colourful aristocratic characters, including a reappearance of Lady Amanda Fitton, who has now trained as an airplane engineer, working with Alan Dell on his Alandel machines. The professional women Georgia, Val and Amanda are very much to the forefront and sexual politics are frequently discussed
10
3.8
Traitor´s Purse
Margery Allingham
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.
11
4.0
Coroner's Pidgin
Margery Allingham
256 pages
9 hours of reading
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. Now, Campion must assist Detective Chief Inspector Oates and Superintendent Yeo in unravelling a plot of deception and murder. Originally pu.
12
4.0
More Work for the Undertaker
Margery Allingham
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.
13
4.0
The Tiger in the Smoke
Margery Allingham
Meg Elginbrodde's plans to marry millionaire Geoffrey Levett stop dead when she begins receiving snapshots of a man who could be her husband--if he hadn't been killed at war five years before. When Meg's old friend, the charming and erudite Albert Campion, takes on this case of perplexing identity, he enters a spine-chilling manhunt in London's sinister underworld.
14
3.5
The Beckoning Lady
Margery Allingham
233 pages
9 hours of reading
Private detective Albert 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. Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic Suffolk village, but it is a less romantic peril than on Mr Campion’s first visit, more than twenty years ago. ‘Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors.’ - The Sunday Times ‘Allingham’s work is always of the first rank.’ – New York Times ‘Unforgettable.’ – A.S. Byatt
15
3.9
Tether's End
Margery Allingham
208 pages
8 hours of reading
The killer of a pawnbroker left few clues--not even a body--but Albert Campion has reservations when the outlandish theory of Superintendent Charles Luke leads them to a curio museum called Tether's End
16
3.8
The China Governess
Margery Allingham
272 pages
10 hours of reading
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.
17
3.6
Classic Crime: The Mind Readers
Margery Allingham
256 pages
9 hours of reading
The ancient hamlet of Saltey, once the haunt of smugglers, now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter… and someone in town is willing to terrorise, murder, and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves. When a transistor thought to be the key to telepathic communication is found, Albert Campion is called to sort fact from fiction. 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 others who will kill to get hold of it. Private detective Albert Campion faces a challenge as deadly as any in his career. All books in the Albert Campion series are standalone titles and can be read in any order.
18
3.1
Cargo of Eagles
Margery Allingham
217 pages
8 hours of reading
Albert Campion and his American friend visit Saltey, an old pirate's town on the English coast now plagued with modern-day disreputable characters, to unravel a murder connected to a hundred-year-old legend and a missing treasure
19
4.0
Mr Campion's Farthing
Youngman Carter
320 pages
12 hours of reading
Inglewood Turrets, an expensive anachronism in the leafy outskirts of North London is a cross between St Pancreas Station and Holloway Gaol, and the house where the formidable Miss Charlotte Cambric recreates Victorian elegance for foreign culture-vultures. Vassily Kopeck, the half-Russian, half-Polish physicist and an 'attache of sorts', disappears as effectively as a cat who turns a corner in a London fog after a visit to The Turrets - and thereby becomes a wanted man. Then Felix Perdreau, the flamboyant rare book dealer and friend of Kopek also goes missing. Making a case for Albert Campion, who cannot resist a mystery?
20
Mr. Campion's Quarry
Youngman Carter
240 pages
9 hours of reading
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.
21
3.5

Related books

The Allingham Case-Book
Margery Allingham
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
3.5
Der vollkommene Butler
Margery Allingham
293 pages
11 hours of reading
Margery Allingham, die beliebte Meisterin der Kriminalliteratur, bietet den Lesern eine Fülle von exotischen und unterhaltsamen Abenteuern mit ihrem geliebten Detektiv Albert Campion. Geschichten im Buch: He was Asking After You Publicity The Perfect Butler The Barbarian Mr. Campion's Lucky Day 'Tis Not Hereafter The Correspondents He Preferred Them Sad The Unseen Door Bird Thou Never Wert The Same To Us She Heard it on the Radio The Man With the Sack The Secret A Quarter of a Million The Pioneers The Sexton's Wife The Wink
Mr. Campion and Others
Margery Allingham
288 pages
11 hours of reading
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
3.5
The Return of Mr Campion
Uncollected Stories
Margery Allingham
224 pages
8 hours of reading
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".
4.0