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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sweet danger Sweet danger Margery Allingham Way back during the crusades Richard I presented the Huntingforest family with the tiny Balkan principality of Averna but since then the kingdom has been forgotten, until circumstances in Europe sudd… OL12690629W
Black Plumes Black Plumes Margery Allingham "A cupboard, a corpse, and a cache of family skeletons...The Ivorys lived in state, in London. All respectable. But when Frances warned her grandmother that 'something was going on,' it was the under… OL2004202W
Mystery Mile Mystery Mile Margery Allingham A red chess piece... An improbable suicide... A disappearing judge... These were the clues to a killer whose victims never escaped. Judge Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the cr… OL2004236W
The Allingham Minibus The Allingham Minibus Margery Allingham In this collection of eighteen short stories, Queen of Crime Margery Allingham dabbles in the occult, the mysterious, and the murderous. Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories … OL2004256W
The White Cottage Mystery The White Cottage Mystery Margery Allingham The mysterious recluse Eric Crowther was murdered, he lived in the gaunt house whose shadow fell across the White Cottage, much as the man himself overshadowed the lives of the occupants of the littl… OL2004289W
Deadly Duo Deadly Duo Margery Allingham An aging actress who predicted her own murder. A cunning invalid who was more warped in mind than in body. And a young girl who became an innocent pawn in a deadly game of life and death. … OL2004291W
The Tiger in the Smoke The Tiger in the Smoke Margery Allingham 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 rumors are true: Jack Havoc, charismatic… OL2004314W