The Allingham Casebook - by Margery Allingham (Paperback)

Book Synopsis A classic collection of mystery stories: "With skillful plotting laced with tongue-in-cheek humor, Allingham never ceases to intrigue and surprise" ( Daily Mail ).

This volume offer eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Crime that will baffle the most ingenious of armchair detectives--and even, at times, the imperturbable sleuth Albert Campion himself.

Enjoy one of England's great golden-era writers at her witty best as she spins delicious tales of high-risk heists and domestic deceptions in this exquisite short story collection.

"A perfectly splendid collection of short stories." --H. R. F. Keating About the Author Margery Allingham, born in 1904 to Emily and Herbert Allingham, was an esteemed English novelist, author, and editor of Christian Globe and the New London Journal . Considered one of the four "Queens of Crime" from the golden age of detective fiction, Allingham began writing stories and plays at a young age and published her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick , at 19. She later studied drama and speech training at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Allingham is best known for her character Albert Campion, a sleuth first introduced in The Crime of Black Dudley . Campion was featured in seventeen subsequent novels, and even more short stories. Allingham continued to write until her death on June 30, 1966.