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Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.
Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London in 1904 to a family immersed in literature. Her father, Herbert John Allingham, and her mother Emily Jane were both writers - he was editor of the Christian Globe and The New London Journal (to which Margery later contributed articles and Sexton Blake stories), before becoming a successful pulp fiction writer, while her mother was a contributor of stories to women's magazines. An aunt, Maud Hughes, also ran a magazine.
Soon after Margery's birth, the family left London for Essex, living in an old house in Layer Breton, a village near Colchester. She went to a local school and then to the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge, all the while writing stories and plays; she earned her first fee at the age of eight, for a story printed in her aunt's magazine.
Returning to London in 1920, she attended the Regent Street Polytechnic studying drama and speech-training, curing a stammer she had suffered since childhood; it was at this time that she first met her future husband, Philip Youngman Carter. In 1927, she married Carter, who collaborated with her and designed the jackets for many of her books. They lived on the edge of the Essex Marshes in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, near Maldon.
Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923 when she was 19. It was allegedly based on a story she heard during a séance, though later in life this was debunked by her husband. Nevertheless, Allingham continued to include occult themes in many novels. Blackkerchief Dick was well received, but was not a financial success. She also wrote several plays in this period, and attempted to write a serious novel, but finding her themes clashed with her natural light-heartedness, she decided instead to try the mystery genre.
Her first work of detective fiction was a serialized story published by the Daily Express in 1927. Entitled The White Cottage Mystery, it contained atypical themes for a woman writer of the era.
Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley. This introduced Albert Campion, albeit originally as a minor character. He returned in Mystery Mile, thanks in part to pressure from her American publishers, much taken with the character.
By now, with three novels behind her, Allingham's skills were improving, and with a strong central character and format to work from, she began to produce a series of popular Campion novels. At first she had to continue writing short stories and journalism for magazines such as The Strand Magazine, but as her Campion saga went on, her following, and her sales, grew steadily. Campion proved so successful that Allingham made him the centrepiece of another 17 novels and over 20 short stories, continuing into the 1960s.
Campion is a mysterious, upper-class character, working under an assumed name, who floats between the upper echelons of the nobility and government on one hand and the shady world of the criminal class in the United Kingdom on the other, often accompanied by his scurrilous ex-burglar servant Lugg. During the course of his career he is sometimes detective, sometimes adventurer. He falls in love, gets married and has a child, and as time goes by he grows in wisdom and matures emotionally.
As Allingham's powers developed, the style and format of the books moved on; while the early novels are light-hearted whodunnits, The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) is more character study than crime novel, focusing on serial killer Jack Havoc and leaving Campion a minor character no more prominent than his wife Amanda and his police associates.
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Albert Campion series
Margery Allingham - The Crime At Black Dudley (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - Mystery Mile (read by Francis Matthews)
Margery Allingham - Look To The Lady (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - Police At The Funeral (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - Sweet Danger (read by Francis Matthews)
Margery Allingham - Death Of A Ghost (read by Francis Matthews)
Margery Allingham - Flowers For The Judge (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - The Case Of The Late Pig (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - Dancers In Mourning (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - The Fashion In Shrouds (read by Francis Matthews)
Margery Allingham - Traitor's Purse (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - Coroner's Pidgin (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - More Work For The Undertaker (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - The Tiger In The Smoke (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - The Beckoning Lady (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - Hide My Eyes (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - The China Governess (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - The Mind Readers (read by David Thorpe)
Margery Allingham - Cargo Of Eagles (read by Francis Matthews)
Other
Margery Allingham - The White Cottage Mystery (read by Francis Matthews)
Margery Allingham - Black Plumes (read by Francis Matthews)
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Albert Campion series
http://rapidgator.net/file/58f0da4ebedd079bbd9d4c711192e517/The_Crime_At_Black_Dudley.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/64b3beb9588ecbc5d8790107a8d4653b/Mystery_Mile.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1879f24f8ae3e6bf4615657e18081435/Look_To_The_Lady.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/735a43e4a7b6542e65f754a1842ea321/Police_At_The_Funeral.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/000231e7400ce612673511fd5ec89561/Sweet_Danger.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f312578217e69c4a577c879b7765cf4f/Death_Of_A_Ghost.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d1258b1397a0859c5ab86a3391d56873/Flowers_For_The_Judge.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d9ba02bf39aeb624a4db812b9c4b42c7/The_Case_Of_The_Late_Pig.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0ab7aca92e5337e5abb4731f3f98dc5f/Dancers_In_Mourning.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/18557a7413cb18cf47178572f1ffa24a/The_Fashion_In_Shrouds.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/99729190e3d88da587d4652e50f9ca11/Traitors_Purse.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/755f5e53ea05a225d30b7023382894fb/Coroners_Pidgin.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f85d2ad01de7716cabc2785959c900c8/More_Work_For_The_Undertaker.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7e14ab2130a73a731b3cbf39e729750e/The_Tiger_In_The_Smoke.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c0b7b68a2db04272f33b1ca23f21114e/The_Beckoning_Lady.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d4089ab4a681c38dc688909a3b2f9539/Hide_My_Eyes.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/930637339066621a6c98373703283212/The_China_Governess.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dca65c4a51fbcafc81e749253c503f6e/The_Mind_Readers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e63f2b9d850a79b473cd1dbcaa67ee67/Cargo_Of_Eagles.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/6ac4fa12b3782f6b580d54edebf05642/The_White_Cottage_Mystery.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/41dfcbf4668e6eab8d6737edd25475b2/Black_Plumes.rar.html |
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