Margery Allingham
6 SeriesMargery Allingham (1904-1966) was a renowned English crime fiction author, celebrated for her Albert Campion series. She initially contributed to The Strand magazine before dedicating her career to the successful Campion novels. Allingham passed away in 1966.
Margery Allingham's works feature Albert Campion in various mysteries, including "The Crime at Black Dudley," where a murder disrupts a house party, and "Sweet Danger," involving a quest for a lost kingdom. In "Dancers in Mourning," Campion investigates the death of a dancer, while "Coroner's Pidgin" sees him solving a wartime murder linked to stolen pearls. "Traitor's Purse" finds Campion thwarting a sabotage plot despite amnesia, and "Hide My Eyes" follows a serial killer's trail. Some novels, like "Mr. Campion's Falcon" and "Mr. Campion's Fathing," were completed by Philip Youngman Carter, and others, such as "Rogue's Holiday," were penned under the pseudonym Maxwell March.
