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<p>A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY <b>Agatha Christie called her a shining light. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?</b></p><p>First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacket. Then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body, private detective Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth...</p><p>Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia's best friend just happens to be Valentine, a top couturière and Campion's sister. In order to protect Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail and ruthless murder.</p><p><i>As urbane as Lord Wimseyas ingenious as Poirot Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr</i><b><i>Albert Campion.</i></b></p>

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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,<i>The White Cottage Mystery</i>, and<i></i>the following year, in<i>The Crime at Black Dudley</i>, 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 as<i>Hide My Eyes</i>and<i>The Tiger in the Smoke</i>, 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.

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