A man is killed five months after his funeral, in a tale by ""one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel"" (Alexander McCall Smith).Private detective …
"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 ParetskyWorld War II is limping to a …
A lively British mystery from "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).Strange things are happening in Saltey. The …
""If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it."" A.S. ByattCelebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital, accused of attacking a police …
A mysterious invention causes mayhem in a coastal English village—from "my very favourite of the four Queens of Crime" (J. K. Rowling).The ancient hamlet of Saltey, once the haunt …
A custom-made killer shocks the fashionable London set in “one of the finest murder books ever written” featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (The New Yorker). Albert …
Murder takes center stage when a song-and-dance man is targeted, in an Albert Campion whodunit from ""the best of mystery writers"" (The New Yorker).When entertainer Jimmy Sutane …
"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance." —Agatha ChristieTimothy Kinnit is rich, …
