More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham

More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?

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. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.

As urbane as Lord Wimsey…as ingenious as Poirot… Meet one of crime fiction’s Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

As addictive as cocaine, Allingham's stories feature spooky happenings and violent death * Independent *
One of the finest “golden age” crime novelists * Sunday Telegraph *
Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered
Allingham's characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains * Times Literary Supplement *

Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. She sold her first story at age 8 and published her first novel before turning 20. She married the artist, journalist and editor Philip Youngman Carter in 1927. In 1928 Allingham published her first detective story, The White Cottage Mystery, and the following year, in The Crime at Black Dudley, she introduced the detective who was to become the hallmark of her sophisticated crime novels and murder mysteries - Albert Campion. Famous for her London thrillers, such as Hide My Eyes and The Tiger in the Smoke, Margery Allingham has been compared to Dickens in her evocation of the city's shady underworld. Acclaimed by crime novelists such as P.D. James, Allingham is counted alongside Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Gladys Mitchell as a pre-eminent Golden Age crime writer. Margery Allingham died in 1966.

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ISBN 13	9780099506072
ISBN 10	0099506076
Title	More Work for the Undertaker
Author	Margery Allingham
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2007-03-01
Number of pages	256
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