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Cargo of Eagles
Margery Allingham
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Description for Cargo of Eagles
Paperback. Private detective Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes. Once the haunt of smugglers, it now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter - and someone in the village is willing to terrorise, murder and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
Private detective Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes. Once the haunt of smugglers, it now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter - and someone in the village is willing to terrorise, murder and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves.
As urbane as Lord Wimsey…as ingenious as Poirot… Meet one of crime fiction’s Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099513285
SKU
V9780099513285
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About Margery Allingham
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Cargo of Eagles
A perfectly wonderful writer
Scotsman
Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors
Sunday Times
One of the finest “golden age” crime novelists
Sunday Telegraph
Miss Allingham has a strong, well controlled sense of humour, a power of suggesting character with a few touches and an excellent English style. She has a sense ... Read more
Scotsman
Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors
Sunday Times
One of the finest “golden age” crime novelists
Sunday Telegraph
Miss Allingham has a strong, well controlled sense of humour, a power of suggesting character with a few touches and an excellent English style. She has a sense ... Read more