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In which book does albert campion get married Margery Louise Allingham (– 30 June ) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.

The casebook of mr campion Margery Allingham is pre-eminent among the writers who brought the detective story to maturity in the decades between the two world wars. She created an aristocratic, unassuming detective called Albert Campion, who matured from “just a silly ass” of the s to an eminent intelligence veteran forty years later.

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Margery Allingham (born May 20, , London, England—died June 30, , Colchester, Essex) was a British detective-story writer of unusual subtlety, wit, and imaginative power who created the bland, bespectacled, keen-witted Albert Campion, one of the most interesting of fictional detectives.

Margery allingham children Margery Allingham () is ranked among the most distinguished and beloved British crime writers and is often cited as a key influence on modern female writers including P.D James, Ruth Rendell, A.S. Byatt and J.K. Rowling.

Mrs allingham painted the fish shop As Julia Thorogood states in the introduction to her biography of the writer Margery Allingham "It has become accepted form to refer to Margery with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Ngio Marsh as 'Golden Age Queens of Crime'" and Ms Allingham's thirty or so published novels, many of which featured the sleuth Albert Campion, stand as.

Margery allingham books ranked Margery Louisa Allingham was born on May 20, , in Ealing, London. Her parents, Herbert John and Emily Jane Allingham, were both writers. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Essex, where they lived in an old house near Colchester.

Margery allingham books in order For the long last part of the war, Margery Allingham left him in abeyance while she buckled to with war work herself and produced, at the instigation of her American publisher, a factual book about rural Britain under fire, The Oaken Heart.

William allingham poems William Allingham, Nationality: English Date of Birth: 19 March Place of Birth: Ballyshannon, County Date of Death: 18 November Place of Death: Eldon House, Lyndhurst Road.