Margery Allingham

When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind: proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.

The Gyrth family has guarded the Gyrth Chalice for hundreds of years. Its antiquity, its beauty, the legends that were connected with it, all combined to make it unique. No thief could hope to dispose of it in the ordinary way. And no ordinary thief would dream of trying. Kept in a windowless chapel, and protected by a fearsome curse, the Chalice should be impervious to thievery. But this is 1930, and crooks have all the advantages of the modern world.<P> The victim of a botched...

Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind the deadly Simister gang. After four attempts on his life, he ends up seeking the help of the enigmatic and unorthodox amateur sleuth, Albert Campion. After Campion bundles Lobbett off to a country house in Mystery Mile, deep in the Suffolk countryside, all manner of adventures ensue.

The slashing of a valuable painting at the renowned Ivory Gallery in London, followed by the murder of the proprietor&apos;s son-in-law, sets the stage for another fine Allingham mystery.

When Albert Campion is invited to join the unveiling of a picture by a dead artist, he is treated instead to a murder when the lights go down and a young man is stabbed to death. Campion gets to work on one of his most baffling cases, with along list of possible killers – and soon finds himself facing an old enemy…

A highly unpleasant old schoolfellow of Albert Campion&apos;s manages to get himself murdered—twice.

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar.<P> All eyes are on the other partners at the firm – cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise – and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier.<P> Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion – but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it...

An old friend of Albert Campion, «Uncle» William Faraday, has written a successful book that has been turned into a hit musical comedy. Jimmy Sutane, an established actor and dancer, is the star of the musical. But recently someone has it in for Sutane and has started playing harmless practical jokes that have caused the highly emotional Jimmy much trauma. Jimmy asks Campion to look into who the prankster may be. So Campion takes a trip to the Sutane household, where he unexpectedly finds more...

A unique anthology for crime aficionados – six ‘perfect murder’ stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved.Is the ‘perfect murder’ possible? Can that crime be committed with such consummate care, with such exacting skill, that it is unsolvable – even to the most astute investigator?In this unique collection, legendary crime writers...