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15 July 2024
Margery Allingham’s Writing
Margery Allingham’s work merits a good deal of re-reading. Her work is intelligent, artful and precisely observed and her characters...
Read MoreWhich Margery Allingham Book to Read Next?
Margery Allingham’s books cover a wide range of themes. To help you decide which book to read next, we have...
READ MOREWhy Margery Allingham is Still Relevant Today
Margery Allingham is far more than just one of the “big four” crime writers from the Golden Age of Detective...
READ MORETraitor’s Purse: A Wartime Masterpiece
In Traitor’s Purse, Allingham gets the pace and tension deliciously right, yet she wrote it in fragments in 1940, in...
READ MORECWA Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
“The Mystery remains box-shaped, at once a prison and a refuge. Its four walls are, roughly, a Crime, a Mystery,...
READ MOREAlbert Campion Timeline
In 1929 Albert Campion is a pay-for-hire conman, working for a criminal to undermine another criminal gang by stealing secret...
READ MOREThrillers written as Maxwell March
Margery Allingham wrote three entertaining thrillers under the pseudonym Maxwell March. These tightly plotted, fast-moving novels introduce two new detectives,...
READ MOREGentleman Sleuth Albert Campion
Allingham’s most famous character is Albert Campion, an upper-class amateur detective, who may or may not be actual royalty: we...
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