Author: Margery Allingham

The secrets of the respected publishing house of Barnabus Ltd. stretch back many years, but when one of the directors is found dead, locked in the ...

A classic collection of mystery stories: With skillful plotting laced with tongue-in-cheek humor, Allingham never ceases to intrigue and surprise (...

Two classic mystery stories from the Golden Age author who stands out like a shining light (Agatha Christie).  Wanted: Someone Innocent At a retire...

An ace high mystery, with unexpected situations and new methods used by old rogues from the Golden Age author of the Albert Campion series (Kirkus ...

World War II on the home front: Fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society or James Herriot will enjoy this unique historical accoun...

A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank. The New York Ti...

Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance. Agatha Christ...

A mysterious invention causes mayhem in a coastal English villagefrom my very favourite of the four Queens of Crime (J. K. Rowling).The ancient ham...

A collection of eighteen classic Golden Age short stories from the best of mystery writerswith a tribute by Agatha Christie (The New Yorker).   Acc...

A lively British mystery from one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel (Alexander McCall Smith).Strange things are...

A collection of thirteen short stories brings back an acclaimed Golden Age mystery authors beloved sleuth, as well as a host of fresh characters an...

A man is killed five months after his funeral, in a tale by one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel (Alexander Mc...

An artists legacy lives on--through murder in this  Albert Campion mystery masterpiece from one of the finest Golden-Age crime novelists (The Sunda...

With gentleman sleuth Albert Campion on the case and plenty of European intrigue, Sweet Danger is for the connoisseur of detective fiction (Sunday ...

If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it. A.S. ByattCelebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital, ...

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 ParetskyWor...

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 ParetskyWor...

Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this vivid and witty British mystery (The New York Times).Sca...

Wonderfully plotted . . . A marvelous mixture of witchcraft, sacred relics and ancient oaths. [Allingham was a] rare and precious talent. - The Was...