Books written by Margery Allingham

  • Six Against the Yard
    Six Against the Yard

    told stories about how he'd show off and how he'd lie and the idiotic things he'd do, and gradually the police got him straight in their minds. They chose two or three of the boarders for witnesses at the inquest and I had to go too.

  • Casi da manuale (Il Giallo Mondadori)
    Casi da manuale (Il Giallo Mondadori)

    Si chiama Melanie Miller, e prima di vincere era una sconosciuta dell'ufficio informazioni dei grandi magazzini Cuppage. Ma ha vinto una puntata dopo l'altra fino al ... s'irritò Charles. — In autobus era un maledetto ingombro, ...

  • The Oaken Heart
    The Oaken Heart

    ... 302 Whipps , Sidney & George : 285 Whybrow , Mr : 158 Wilhemina , Queen of the Netherlands : 178 , 353 Wilkie , Wendell : 213 , 355 Wilson , Margaret : 298 , 301 , 312 Winant , John : 213 , 329 , 355 Witham : 309 Withers , Mr & Miss ...

  • Canine Crimes
    Canine Crimes

    “ Every day about three in the afternoon , Harvey Bettinjohn goes down to the Long Beach wharves and spends an hour watching the ships . He started as a stevedore , bought a boat of his own , and parlayed it into a fleet .

  • The Allingham Case-Book

    The Allingham Case-Book

  • The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War
    The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War

    Carter? To keep this soul I've got alive. To keep my spirit unenslaved. The Oaken Heart is a testament to the hope and heart that prevailed in England throughout the war: a hope for its future and for its freedom.

  • Tether's End
    Tether's End

    When a murdered London pawnbroker's corpse is missing, clues are scant and witnesses few.

  • The Man of Dangerous Secrets
    The Man of Dangerous Secrets

    In 1928 she published her first work of detective fiction, The White Cottage Mystery, after it was serialized in the Daily Express, but her breakthrough came in 1929 with the ... Books by MAXWELL MARCH The Man of Dangerous Secrets Rogues'

  • Death of a Ghost
    Death of a Ghost

    When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there...

  • Flowers for the Judge
    Flowers for the Judge

    K. Rowling “Ms. Allingham has a strong, controlled sense of humour and is never dull.” —Times Literary Supplement

  • The Allingham Casebook
    The Allingham Casebook

    This volume offers eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Crime that will baffle the most ingenious of armchair detectives—and even, at times, the imperturbable sleuth Albert Campion himself.

  • The Allingham Casebook: A Collection of Witty Short Stories
    The Allingham Casebook: A Collection of Witty Short Stories

    Enjoy Margery Allingham at her witty best as she spins delicious tales of high-risk heists and domestic deceptions in this exquisite short story collection.

  • The Case of the Late Pig
    The Case of the Late Pig

    Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peters’s body goes missing. It takes all Campion’s coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime. The Case of the Late Pig is, uniquely, narrated by Campion himself.

  • The Beckoning Lady
    The Beckoning Lady

    K. Rowling “Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors.” —The Sunday Times “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 ...

  • The White Cottage Mystery
    The White Cottage Mystery

    The White Cottage Mystery was Margery Allingham's first detective story, originally written as a serial for the Daily Express in 1927 and published as a book a year later.

  • Mystery Mile
    Mystery Mile

    Classic Crime from the Golden Age, the second in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling's favourite Golden Age author. Albert Campion is sailing home when he saves the life of fellow passenger, Judge Crowdy Lobbett.

  • Mystery Mile
    Mystery Mile

    Blackmail, abduction and sudden death bring matters to a climax. It is Albert Campion, with the unorthodox help of his man Lugg, who masterminds the defence of Mystery Mile and uncovers the true face of Simister.

  • The Case of the Late Pig
    The Case of the Late Pig

    "First published in Great Britain in 1937 by William Heinemann"--Title page verso.

  • The Crime at Black Dudley
    The Crime at Black Dudley

    THE FIRST CAMPION MYSTERY 'Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light' Agatha Christie A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and...

  • Coroner's Pidgin
    Coroner's Pidgin

    The reluctant Campion is forced to put his powers of detection to work as he is drawn deeper into the case, and into the eccentric Caradocs household, dealing with murder, treason, grand larceny, and the mysterious disappearance of some ...