Beckoning Lady

Murder darkens the bright days of summer in an idyllic Suffolk village, in an Albert Campion mystery that is simply "e;unforgettable"e; (A.S. Byatt). One of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction's Four Queens of Crime"e;The best of mystery writers."e; The New YorkerPrivate 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. Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic rural village, but it is a less romantic peril than Campion faced on his first visit, more than twenty years ago "e;Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered."e; P.D. James"e;Margery Allingham was one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel."e; Alexander McCall Smith"e;Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever."e; Sara Paretsky