Deadly Duo

Deadly Duo

by Margery Allingham
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 30/05/2023

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Two classic mystery stories by a Golden Age Queen of Crime, the author of the Albert Campion series who "stands out like a shining light" (Agatha Christie).


"Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered."—P. D. James, New York Times–bestselling author

"Wanted: Someone Innocent"

At a retirement reception for their headmistress, twenty-year-old Gillie Brayton is swept away by the wealthy Rita Fayre to work for her in London. Gillie's job is to accompany Rita's convalescent husband, but a shocking tragedy reveals the motive behind her employment: murder.


"Last Act"

Gathered at the country residence of Madame Zoffany, an aging star of the French stage, are her ward, both grandsons who stand to inherit her fortune, and her longtime servants. And though they are all used to Zoff's theatrics, it still comes as a surprise when the grande dame takes her final curtain call—and the spotlight of suspicion shines on them all…


Praise for Margery Allingham


**"The best of mystery writers."— The New Yorker


"Don't start reading these books unless you are confident that you can handle addiction."— The Independent


"One of the finest Golden-Age crime novelists."— The Sunday Telegraph**

ISBN:
9781504087971
9781504087971
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
30-05-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. She sold her first story at age 8 and published her first novel before turning 20. She married the artist, journalist and editor Philip Youngman Carter in 1927.

In 1928 Allingham published her first detective story, The White Cottage Mystery, and the following year, in The Crime at Black Dudley, she introduced the detective who was to become the hallmark of her sophisticated crime novels and murder mysteries - Albert Campion.

Famous for her London thrillers, such as Hide My Eyes and The Tiger in the Smoke, Margery Allingham has been compared to Dickens in her evocation of the city's shady underworld. Acclaimed by crime novelists such as P.D. James, Allingham is counted alongside Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Gladys Mitchell as a pre-eminent Golden Age crime writer. Margery Allingham died in 1966.

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