Margery Allingham

Way back during the Crusades, Richard I presented the Huntingforest family with the tiny Balkan state of Averna but since then the kingdom has been forgotten....

The unrivalled Albert Campion returns to solve another shocking murder - classic crime fiction at its very best....

Seven people might have murdered Eric Crowther, the mysterious recluse who lived in the gaunt house whose shadow fell across the White Cottage. Seven people had good cause....

Step into the shadowy world of crime and deduction with The Detective Club, a spectacular collection of 77 classic mysteries featuring some of the ...

Step into the world of Albert Campion, the brilliant and unassuming sleuth whose adventures are filled with intrigue, wit, and unexpected twists. The Best...

Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake....

Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death....

Campion investigates once more, but this time he is on the run from the police....

Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission....

Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells....

The Gyrth family had guarded the Chalice for hundreds of years. It was held by them for the Crown. Its antiquity, its beauty, the extraordinary legends that were connected with it, all combined to make it unique of its kind....

Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room....

Timothy Kinnit needs Albert Campion's help....

Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered....

Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy ("Auburn") when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens’ post and a First Aid centre....

When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend....

In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths....

Albert Campion, an eccentric but intelligent and resourceful man, becomes involved in a mysterious crime in Black Dudley, an isolated country estate owned by the wealthy and secretive Dudley family. A grand gathering is taking place at the house, but not all will leave.

When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancee of an old college friend....

Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist....