ALLINGHAM MARGERY

ΕΝΑΣ ΤΙΓΡΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΙΘΑΛΟΜΙΧΛΗ
"Μπορεί να είναι απλώς εκβιασμός", είπε με μια δόση αισιοδοξίας ο άντρας στο ταξί. Η ομίχλη έμοιαζε με βαθυκίτρινη κουβέρτα μουλιασμένη σε παγωμένο νερό. Κρεμόταν πάνω από το Λονδίνο όλη μέρα. Ο ουρανός ήταν κίτρινος σαν ξεσκονόπανο, και το υπόλοιπο σκηνικό κόκκοι μαύρου σε γκρίζο φόντο ένας αστυνομικός έστριβε με την υγρή μπέρτα του." Ο ΤΖΑΚ ΧΑΒΟΚ, δραπέτης από τη φυλακή και μαχαιροβγάλτης, κυκλοφορεί και πάλι ασύδοτος στους δρόμους του Λονδίνου. Στα ξεθωριασμένα πολεοδομικά τετράγωνα με τα σαθρά σπίτια, στα απόμερα δρομάκια και στα μισο...
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ΤΟ ΔΕΚΑΤΟ ΠΕΜΠΤΟ ΛΕΠΤΟ
Στο ξέσπασμα του Β' Παγκόσμιου Πολέμου ο ντετέκτιβ Άλμπερτ Κάμπιον ξυπνά σε ένα νοσοκομείο πάσχοντας από αμνησία, ενώ κατηγορείται για επίθεση σε αστυνομικό. Το μόνο που μπορεί να θυμηθεί είναι πως βρισκόταν σε μια μυστική αποστολή ζωτικής σημασίας για την κυβέρνηση. Δραπετεύοντας από το νοσοκομείο και καταδιωκόμενος από την αστυνομία, ο πρώτος άνθρωπος που συναντά θα βρεθεί λίγο αργότερα δολοφονημένος. Γιατί ο αριθμός δεκαπέντε εμφανίζεται επίμονα, σχεδόν τυραννικά, στην έρευνά του; Ανίκανος να αναγνωρίσει ακόμα και την αγαπημένη του μνησ...
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(H/B) THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE
An impenetrable fog has descended on the streets of post-war London and, lurking in the shadows, a violent murderer is on the rampage. Gentleman detective, Albert Campion, is on the trail of a mysterious man posing as the dead husband of a war widow with a wealthy new fianc?, but his expedition into the city's criminal underworld reveals something far more sinister than blackmail... Set in the atmospheric midst of a London 'pea souper', The Tiger in the Smoke is Margery Allingham's most sophisticated Golden Age crime novel, in which the da...
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(P/B) THE WHITE COTTAGE MYSTERY
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 complicate things. The White Cottage Mystery was Margery Allingham's first detective story, ...
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(H/B) SWEET DANGER
Aristocratic detective Albert Campion is called upon by the British government to establish ownership of the tiny, oil-rich principality of Averna on the Adriatic Coast. The titled but impoverished Fitton family lay claim to it, but the deeds are nowhere to be found. With the help of his loyal chums and sidekick, retired cat burglar Magersfontein Lugg, Campion must pit his wits against a criminal financier and his heavies in order to unearth the truth. A quintessential Golden Age detective story and utterly gripping thriller, Sweet Danger ...
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(P/B) THE BECKONING LADY
Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Private detective Albert Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill. As urbane as Lord Wimsey... as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives...
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(P/B) HIDE MY EYES
Agatha Christie called her `a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer. A spate of murders leaves him and his friend and colleague Inspector Luke, with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin lettercase. However, a chain of strange events leads them to an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet London neighbourhood where more is going on than meets the eye. As u...
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(P/B) MORE WORK FOR THE UNDERTAKER
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE MIND READERS
Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Private detective Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MYSTERY MILE
Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstanding pillar of American society. And now he's a man in deadly peril, tailed across the Atlantic by the ruthless Simister gang. Luckily for Judge Lobbett, however, he makes the acquaintance of one Albert Campion during his voyage to England. The enigmatic amateur sleuth bundles the Judge off to the country house of Mystery Mile, where it's a race against time...
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(P/B) THE FASHION IN SHROUDS
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... 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 couturiere and Campion's sister. In order to protect Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail and ruthless murder. As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poiro...
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(P/B) THE CRIME AT BLACK DUDLEY
The first Campion mystery A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and a groupof London's brightest young things accepted an invitation to the mansion of Black Dudley. Skulduggery is most certainly afoot, and the party-goers soon realise that they're trapped in the secluded house. Amongst them is a stranger who promises to unravel the villainous plots behind their incarceration - but can George and his friends trust the peculiar young man who calls himself Albert Campion? (From the publ...
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(P/B) FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE
Scandal, secrets and suspicions abound when one of the directors at the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas is found dead, locked in the company's strongroom. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm - cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise - and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier. Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion - but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever? As urbane as Lord...
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(P/B) DEATH OF A GHOST
John Lafcadio's ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. A set of twelve sealed paintings is the bequest he leaves to his widow - together with the instruction that she unveil one canvas each year before a carefully selected audience. Albert Campion is among the cast of gadabouts, muses and socialites gathered for the latest ceremony - but art is the last thing on the sleuth's mind when a brutal stabbing occurs... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE
A fog is creeping through the weary streets of London - so too are whispers that the Tiger is back in town, undetected by the law, untroubled by morals. And the rumours are true: Jack Havoc, charismatic outlaw, knife-wielding killer and ingenious jail-breaker, is on the loose once again. As Havoc stalks the smog-cloaked alleyways of the city, it falls to Albert Campion to hunt down the fugitive and put a stop to his rampage - before it's too late... As urbane as Lord Wimsey... as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fiction's Great De...
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(P/B) SWEET DANGER
Nestled along the Adriatic coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly - and suspiciously - become the hottest property in Europe, and Albert Campion is given the task of recovering the long-missing proofs of ownership. His mission takes him from the French Riviera to the sleepy village of Pontisbright, where he meets the flame-haired Amanda Fitton. Her family claim to be the rightful heirs to the principality, and insist on joining Campion's quest. Unfortunately for them, a criminal financier and his heavies are also on the trail - the ...
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(P/B) POLICE AT THE FUNERAL
Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? The tranquility of Cambridge is punctured when Cousin Andrew of the illustrious Faraday family disappears without a trace. No time is wasted in summoning Albert Campion and his sleuthing skills away from the bustle of Piccadilly to investigate - but little does he expect to be greeted by a band of eccentric relatives all at daggers with each other. Soon there are as many dead bodies as there are red herrings,...
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