Margery Allingham

Mystery Mile

Year unknown · Margery Allingham

A red chess piece, an improbable suicide, and a disappearing judge are the clues to a killer whose victims never escape. Judge Lobbett discovers…

Police At the Funeral

Year unknown · Margery Allingham

The novel follows Great Aunt Caroline Faraday, who maintains a strict Victorian lifestyle in her Cambridge home in 1931. Her adult grandchildren,…

Sweet danger

1966 · Margery Allingham

During the Crusades, Richard I granted the tiny Balkan principality of Averna to the Huntingforest family, but the kingdom was later forgotten. When…

Death of a Ghost

Year unknown · Margery Allingham

Painter John Sebastian Lafcadio left twelve sealed paintings to be unveiled one per year after his death. At the unveiling of the eighth canvas,…

Flowers for the judge

1936 · Margery Allingham

"The Body That Wasn't There" is a mystery novel by Margery Allingham. Tom Barnabas, a member of the famous book publishing family Barnabas and…

The Case of the Late Pig

1937 · Margery Allingham

Albert Campion attends the funeral of "Pig" Peters, a former schoolmate who made his life miserable, but not out of sorrow. He goes because of an…

Dancers in Mourning

Year unknown · Margery Allingham

Dancers in Mourning is a crime novel by English writer Margery Allingham, first published in 1937 in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London, and in…

The Fashion in Shrouds

Year unknown · Margery Allingham

The Fashion in Shrouds is a crime novel by English writer Margery Allingham, originally published in 1938 in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London,…

Mr. Campion and Others

1950 · Margery Allingham

A collection of thirteen short stories featuring Albert Campion, including cases involving misbehaving debutantes, a smuggling ring, a Dowager…

Traitor's purse

1941 · Margery Allingham

Albert Campion suffers from amnesia. He knows he has an important job to do but cannot remember what it is. Escaping from a hospital, he chases…