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Traitor's Purse
""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 …
The Mind Readers
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 …
The Fashion in Shrouds
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 …
The China Governess
"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, …
The Case of the Late Pig
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 …
Sweet Danger
With gentleman sleuth Albert Campion on the case and plenty of European intrigue, "Sweet Danger is for the connoisseur of detective fiction" (Sunday Times).Nestled along the …
Police at the Funeral
From the Golden Age mystery author comes “a richly detailed and entertaining romp, with a fascinating resolution and an unconventional and winning sleuth” (Chicago Tribune). …
Look to the Lady
“Wonderfully plotted . . . A marvelous mixture of witchcraft, sacred relics and ancient oaths. [Allingham was a] rare and precious talent.” - The Washington PostEstranged from his …
Flowers for the Judge
Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this "vivid and witty" British mystery (The New York Times).Scandal hits the prestigious …
Death of a Ghost
An artist’s legacy lives on--through murder in this Albert Campion mystery masterpiece from “one of the finest Golden-Age crime novelists” (The Sunday Telegraph). To vex his …
Dancers in Mourning
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 …
Coroner's Pidgin
"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 …