Margery Allingham
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Reader
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Eric Crowther collected secrets and used them as weapons. Delighting in nothing more than torturing those around him with what he knew, there is no shortage of suspects when he is found dead in the White Cottage. Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry will have to look deep into everyone's past-- including the victim's-- before they can be sure who has pulled the trigger. The fact that Jerry is in love with one of the suspects, however, might...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Danish Ambassador has requested Albert Campion's help on "a delicate family matter." His 18-year-old daughter has formed an attachment to a most unsuitable young man. Before Mr Campion can act on the matter however, both the Ambassador's daughter and her beau disappear without trace. Then a body is discovered in a lagoon.
Author
Language
English
Description
Six "perfect murders" by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club-plus an essay by Agatha Christie.
Founded in England in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought together an impressive array of Golden Age Mystery authors. Their projects included The Floating Admiral, a whodunit in which twelve different writers contributed individual chapters, as well as Ask a Policeman, another collaboration...
56) Murder Most Foul
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of classic crime short fiction - story listing: Bluebeard's Bathtub by Margery Allingham read by Derek Jacobi; Who Killed Zebedee? by Wilkie Collins read by Patrick Malahide; An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr read by Brian Cox and The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle read by Edward Hardwicke.
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2009]
Language
English
Description
Prepare to meet a host of heroes and villains as you take a tour through the shadier sides of life. This riveting and comprehensive collection brings together some of the best crime writing of all time. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving through the popular and rarely-recorded Graham Greene, to Edgar Wallace and G.K. Chesterton and his master detective Father Brown.
Publisher
Avenel Books
Pub. Date
1989, ©1982
Language
English
Description
"26 tales of seasonal malice by Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Georges Simenon, Woody Allen, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Dorothy L. Sayers, Damon Runyon, Margery Allingham, Stanley Ellin, O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and 10 others."--Cover