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Mystery Mile
Margery Allingham
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Description for Mystery Mile
Paperback. Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstanding pillar of American society. And now he's a man in deadly peril, tailed across the Atlantic by the ruthless Simister gang. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstanding pillar of American society. And now he's a man in deadly peril, tailed across the Atlantic by the ruthless Simister gang.
Luckily for Judge Lobbett, however, he makes the acquaintance of one Albert Campion during his voyage to England. The enigmatic amateur sleuth bundles the Judge off to the country house of Mystery Mile, where it's a race against time to keep ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099474692
SKU
V9780099474692
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
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 Mystery Mile
Allingham is the best of mystery writers
New Yorker
Allingham was a contemporary of Agatha Christie but her work is thought by many to be more stylish and less pedestrian, with cunning plots and witty characters
Sunday Express
Miss Allingham's strength lies in her power of characterisation, in her striking talent for painting the social background ... Read more
New Yorker
Allingham was a contemporary of Agatha Christie but her work is thought by many to be more stylish and less pedestrian, with cunning plots and witty characters
Sunday Express
Miss Allingham's strength lies in her power of characterisation, in her striking talent for painting the social background ... Read more