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Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham (1904-1966) was a British novelist, popular from the 1920s onwards.

Allingham was born in London, and wrote mostly detective fiction, her major creation being Albert Campion, an upper-class character (played on television by Peter Davison).

Books

Crime at Black Dudley (1928)
Police at the Funeral (1931)
Flowers for the Judge (1936)
More Work for the Undertaker (1949)
The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)
The China Governess (1963)

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