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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
Mr. Campion's fox Mr. Campion's fox 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… OL20003073W
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
Dancers in Mourning Dancers in Mourning Margery Allingham An Albert Campion mystery OL2004212W
Death of a Ghost Death of a Ghost 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… OL2004214W
Look to the Lady; or, The Gyrth Chalice Mystery Look to the Lady; or, The Gyrth Chalice Mystery 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… OL2004230W
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
Police At the Funeral Police At the Funeral 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… OL2004242W
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 Crime at Black Dudley; or, The Black Dudley Murder The Crime at Black Dudley; or, The Black Dudley Murder 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… OL2004298W
The Mind Readers The Mind Readers 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… OL2004301W
More Work for the Undertaker More Work for the Undertaker Margery Allingham Roman policier (énigme) OL2004307W
Flowers for the judge Flowers for the judge 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 … OL2004311W
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