Flowers for the Judge - Margery Allingham

Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham

to the case than meets the eye, especially when Julia is found dead in bed, having been poisoned. Can Campion find out the truth before there is another murder? Margery Allingham is often referred to as one of the Queens of Crime, along with Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Dorothy L Sayers, although her name is perhaps not quite as well known. I think this is a shame, because her books are actually very well written and her plots, although often rather contrived, are certainly original. She also writes with a huge amount of humour that comes through very well. This particular book is one of her earlier, and therefore better as far as I am concerned, books. Albert ...

Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham

to the case than meets the eye, especially when Julia is found dead in bed, having been poisoned. Can Campion find out the truth before there is another murder? Margery Allingham is often referred to as one of the Queens of Crime, along with Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Dorothy L Sayers, although her name is perhaps not quite as well known. I think this is a shame, because her books are actually very well written and her plots, although often rather contrived, are certainly original. She also writes with a huge amount of humour that comes through very well. This particular book is one of her earlier, and therefore better as far as I am concerned, books. Albert ...

The China Governess - Margery Allingham

Ngaio Marsh. The only downfall of the book is the ending, which becomes so complicated; I found it hard to follow what was happening and had to read it a couple of times before things fell into place. Once I had worked it all out though, it was a very clever ending. Sadly, Margery Allingham, like Dorothy Sayers, hasn t remained as popular as Agatha Christie, which I think is a shame. Highly recommended. Used and new versions are available from Amazon from £2.64. Published by Penguin, there are 272 pages. ISBN: ...

The China Governess - Margery Allingham

Ngaio Marsh. The only downfall of the book is the ending, which becomes so complicated; I found it hard to follow what was happening and had to read it a couple of times before things fell into place. Once I had worked it all out though, it was a very clever ending. Sadly, Margery Allingham, like Dorothy Sayers, hasn t remained as popular as Agatha Christie, which I think is a shame. Highly recommended. Used and new versions are available from Amazon from £2.64. Published by Penguin, there are 272 pages. ISBN: ...

Traitor's Purse - Margery Allingham

Think film noir. Trilby hats. Dark shadows. Blackouts and fifth columnists. The year is 1941 and Britain is at war. Albert Campion awakes in hospital, with no memory of how he got there. All that he knows in his amnesiac state, is the importance of the number 15 and that the fate of the country depends on him. There is no gentle introduction to the discovery of a body in Chapter Two and Campion is evidently in the thick of it as soon as he comes around. Believing he has murdered a policeman, he escapes hospital by setting off a fire alarm and posing as a fireman, finally stealing a car (albeit one that seems strangely familiar). Allingham’s earlier work had ...

Traitor's Purse - Margery Allingham

Think film noir. Trilby hats. Dark shadows. Blackouts and fifth columnists. The year is 1941 and Britain is at war. Albert Campion awakes in hospital, with no memory of how he got there. All that he knows in his amnesiac state, is the importance of the number 15 and that the fate of the country depends on him. There is no gentle introduction to the discovery of a body in Chapter Two and Campion is evidently in the thick of it as soon as he comes around. Believing he has murdered a policeman, he escapes hospital by setting off a fire alarm and posing as a fireman, finally stealing a car (albeit one that seems strangely familiar). Allingham’s earlier work had ...