A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, theres only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling Albert Campion.

Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate and an ageing starlet is killed.

Under pressure to uncover the culprit, and plagued by his growing feelings for Sutanes wife, Campion finds himself uncomfortably embroiled in an investigation which tests his ingenuity and integrity to the limit

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, andthe following year, inThe 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 asHide My EyesandThe 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.

Agatha Christie called her "a shining light". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?

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