Margery Allingham Ordre des livres

»Die wahre Queen of Crime« The Guardian Ein weiterer Auftritt für Privatdetektiv Albert Campion – er findet sich auf einem ehrwürdigen Herrensitz in Cambridge wieder, wo das Verbrechen Einzug hält. Zwei der Bewohner sind bereits auf mysteriöseArt und Weise ums Leben gekommen, und die Kette erschreckender Ereignisse will einfach nicht abreissen. Ein rasanter Fall aus dem goldenen Zeitalter des Kriminalromans. Als Albert Campion von der Verlobten eines alten Studienfreundes hinzugezogen wird, um das Verschwinden ihres Onkels zu untersuchen, rechnet er kaum mit derFlut von Todesfällen und Gefahren, die sich unter den bizarren Bewohnern von Socrates Close in Cambridge ereignen. Eine Leiche mit Kopfschuss wird gefunden. Eine Tante wird tot in ihrem Bett entdeckt, vergiftet durch ihre morgendliche Tasse Tee. Und so neigt sich die Familie Faraday immer weiter dem Untergang zu. Jeder in dieser Familie ist verdächtig, jeder hat etwas zu verbergen. Campion und der ihm gut bekannte Polizist Stanislaus Oates müssen vorsichtig vorgehen und alte Familiengeheimnisse ergründen, um diesen Fall zu lösen.

“How many of the detective stories you read do you remember?” Not very many. And there Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. In this collection of eighteen short stories, Queen of Crime Margery Allingham dabbles in the occult, the mysterious, and the murderous. Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories with astute characterisations, brilliant humour, and her classic wit. With a tribute by Agatha Christie, this Golden Age collection is sure to dazzle and delight fans of this master of detective fiction. The Allingham Minibus was first published in 1973 and has also been published as Mr Campion’s Lucky Day and Other Stories.

Inspector David Blest has two choices, jump or die. Trapped aboard a motor boat with a pistol to his head and the life of his unconscious companion on the line, he'd better make his decision quick. On the trail of the mysterious death of a gentleman in the Senior Buffs Club, young Inspector Blest is led to a fashionable seaside resort on the English coast, where the locals appear all too happy to help his investigation. Things take a turn when Blest meets Judy Wellington, an apparently sickly young woman desperate to escape her past. But who is Judy Wellington? What exactly is she running from? And how has Blest found himself the murderer's next target?

The follow up to the bestselling crime collection Murder under the Christmas Tree

Margery Allingham was a Golden Age detective novelist, a “Queen of Crime” alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. However her last completed book The Relay was not a novel but an account of the practical and emotional ways in which she and her sister approached the end-of-life care for three elderly relatives in 1959-61. Words like “carer”, “sheltered housing”, “granny annex” were not even in the language when Margery wrote this ground-breaking little book. It was tragic that she herself died in June 1966 before it could be included in one of the first-ever UK campaigns for improvements in the care of the elderly. The Relay has never previously been published.Julia Jones, Margery’s biographer and co-founder of the nationally successful John’s Campaign, believes the ideas in The Relay are as relevant today as when it was first conceived. Julia is a dementia carer and has interspersed reflections on her current experience with Margery’s conclusions 50 years ago. There are currently 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK, many (though not all) of them old. There are hundreds of thousands of families, friends, neighbours and colleagues who are experiencing the effects of this disease as well as increasing frailty and the other difficulties of age. Many, like Julia Jones, will be asking themselves how they can care as well for their loved ones at the end of their lives as we try to do at the beginning.

Mr. Campion heads to Carfax to visit his wayward niece, but when a missing teacher reappears after nine days and Campion's car is "inadvertently" damaged it is clear that something is not right in the English village.

This edition of Black'erchief Dick aims to preserve a significant historical work by republishing it in high quality. It features the original text and artwork, ensuring clarity and readability without relying on scanned copies. The effort to reformat and redesign the book makes it accessible for both present and future generations, highlighting its importance in literary history.

Five adventures, all featuring the perennially popular Albert Campion, prefaced by the author's affectionate profile of this mercurial character.