More Work for the Undertaker
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Mar '07
£9.99
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Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.
As urbane as Lord Wimsey…as ingenious as Poirot… Meet one of crime fiction’s Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
As addictive as cocaine, Allingham's stories feature spooky happenings and violent death * Independent *
One of the finest “golden age” crime novelists * Sunday Telegraph *
Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered
Allingham's characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains * Times Literary Supplement *
ISBN: 9780099506072
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 19mm
Weight: 181g
256 pages