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The Beckoning Lady
Margery Allingham
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Description for The Beckoning Lady
Paperback. Private 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 motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
Private 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 motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.
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
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099506089
SKU
V9780099506089
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99-98
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 The Beckoning Lady
Don't start reading these books unless you are confident that you can handle addiction
Independent
The real queen of crime
Guardian
Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world
Tatler
Spending an evening with Campion is one of life's pure pleasures ... Read more
Independent
The real queen of crime
Guardian
Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world
Tatler
Spending an evening with Campion is one of life's pure pleasures ... Read more