Margery Allingham Cover Gallery 2

Black Plumes (London, William Heinemann, 1940; Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940)
Penguin Books 737, 1950
——, 2nd imp., 1954, 238pp, 2/-.
——, Xth imp., 1966, 4/6.
Lucar was an unpleasant being, intolerably so at times. It was hardly surprising that nobody liked him, even though he had saved Robert Madrigal's life and was his right-hand man at The Gallery, the ancient and reputed