Margery Allingham
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Series
Albert Campion mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
20170203
Description
The village of Saltey, once the haunt of smugglers, is harboring a secret. When a transistor thought to be the key to telepathic communication is found, Albert Campion is called to sort fact from fiction. But the device at the center of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are others who will kill to get hold of it. The ancient hamlet of Saltey, once the haunt of smugglers, now hides a...
Author
Pub. Date
20170124
Description
Classic Crime from the Golden Age.Eric Crowther collected secrets and used them as weapons, delighting in nothing more than torturing those around him with what he knew; so there is no shortage of suspects when he is found dead in the White Cottage. Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry will have to look deep into everyone's past-including the victim's- before they can be sure who has pulled the trigger. The fact that Jerry is in love with one...
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Albert Campion mysteries volume 10
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"Albert Campion, international spy, on His Majesty's secret service? Stranger things have happened, but if they have, Campion can't remember them. He's in hospital, the victim of an apparent accident, and with no memory of anything except that the fact that the fate of the British Empire is somehow cradled in his bandaged hands"--From publisher desription.
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Albert Campion mysteries volume 13
Description
Meg Elginbrodde, a young war widow, receives photographs that suggest her husband is still alive so she enlists the help of her cousin, Albert Campion to investigate. The man in the photographs turns out to be a known felon, 'Duds' Morrison. Meg's jealous fiance, Geoffrey Levitt, accosts Duds but both men are attacked by a criminal gang posing as a rackety street band. Meanwhile, Meg's father, Canon Avril, a gentle priest, wonders how Duds came to...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and a group of London's brightest young things accepted an invitation to the mansion of Black Dudley. Skulduggery is most certainly afoot, and the party-goers soon realise that they're trapped in the secluded house. Amongst them is a stranger who promises to unravel the villainous plots behind their incarceration - but can George and his friends trust the...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Murder darkens the bright days of summer in an idyllic Suffolk village, in an Albert Campion mystery that is simply "unforgettable" (A.S. Byatt).
Private detective Albert Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered—and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motives, suspicion and deception.
Author
Series
Albert Campion mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Campion takes up local lodgings on Apron Street in London, a place where urchins abound and a quasi-feudal ordered is maintained by the eccentric Palinode family, when a threat is sensed and the police are baffled.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"1946, London. The eagerly anticipated new detective novel from Albert Campion's godsibling, bestselling author Evadne Childe, is proving to be another runaway success. Unfortunately, it has also caught the attention of Superintendent Stanislaus Oates for reasons that go beyond its superior plotting. The crime at the heart of The Bottle Party Murder bears a number of striking similarities to a very real, recent and unsolved murder at the Grafton Club...
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so popular during the 'golden age of murder' between the two world wars. But the tradition goes back to the days of Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, and impossible crime stories have been written by such luminaries as Arthur Conan...