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Sweet danger
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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… |
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Mr. Campion's fox
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Mike Ripley |
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… |
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Black Plumes
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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… |
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Dancers in Mourning
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Margery Allingham |
An Albert Campion mystery |
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Death of a Ghost
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Margery Allingham |
John Sebastian Lafcadio, is one of the greatest painters of the Edwardian period, and his ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling a… |
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Look to the Lady; or, The Gyrth Chalice Mystery
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Margery Allingham |
The Gyrth family had guarded the Gyrth Chalice for hundreds of years. It was held by them for the British Crown. Its antiquity, its beauty, the legends that were connected with it, all combined to ma… |
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Mystery Mile
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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… |
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Police At the Funeral
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Margery Allingham |
The imperious Great Aunt Caroline Faraday runs her old Cambridge residence like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact that it's 1931. Furniture and meals are heavy and elaborate, both motorc… |
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The Allingham Minibus
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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 … |
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The Crime at Black Dudley; or, The Black Dudley Murder
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Margery Allingham |
The Black Dudley is an ancient, remote mansion inhabited by recluse, Colonel Combe, but owned by Waytt Petrie, a young academic who decides to revive his property with a weekend party to which he inv… |
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The Mind Readers
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Margery Allingham |
Two schoolboys have discovered a miraculous gadget that enables them to read other people's minds. Then one of the children vanishes - and Albert Campion is called in to crack the case. Soon the in… |
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More Work for the Undertaker
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Margery Allingham |
Roman policier (énigme) |
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Flowers for the judge
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Margery Allingham |
**The Body That Wasn't There**
One morning Tom Barnabas, of the famous book publishers Barnabas and Company, said "Good morning" to his housekeeper, started down a wide suburban street, and never … |
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The Tiger in the Smoke
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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… |
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