Queens of Crime: Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London, on May 20, 1904, the eldest daughter of Herbert J. Allingham and Emmie Allingham (née Hughes), and from a writing family which numbered John Till Allingham, the 19th century melodrama writer. The family relocated to Layer Breton in Essex when Margery was only five years old. Bought up in an atmosphere of ink and writing, she was trained by her father

Margery Allingham Cover Gallery 1

Blackerchief Dick. A tale of Mersea Island (London, Hodder & Stoughton, Aug 1923; as Black’erchief Dick, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page, 1923)
No known paperback editions.

The White Cottage Mystery (London, Jarrolds, 1928; revised, London, Chatto & Windus, 1975; New York, Carroll & Graf, 1990)
Jarrolds Jackdaw, 1938.
Penguin Books 0140-04616-X, 1978, 139pp.
——, 1983, 139pp, £1.50. Cover

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

Margey Allingham bibliography

Novels (series: Albert Campion)
Blackerchief Dick. A tale of Mersea Island. London, Hodder & Stoughton, Aug 1923; as Black’erchief Dick, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page, 1923.
The White Cottage Mystery. London, Jarrolds, 1928; revised, London, Chatto & Windus, 1975; New York, Carroll & Graf, 1990.
The Crime at Black Dudley (Campion) London, Jarrolds, 1929; as The Black Dudley Murder, Garden