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The Beckoning Lady

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087275
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Beckoning Lady written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder darkens the bright days of summer in an idyllic Suffolk village, in an Albert Campion mystery that is simply “unforgettable” (A.S. Byatt). Private detective Albert Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered—and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motives, suspicion and deception. Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic rural village, but it is a less romantic peril than Campion faced on his first visit, more than twenty years ago . . . “My very favourite of the four Queens of Crime is Allingham.” —J. K. Rowling “Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors.” —The Sunday Times “Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.” —Sara Paretsky

The Estate of the Beckoning Lady

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380705740
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Estate of the Beckoning Lady written by Margery Allingham and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beckoning Lady Aud Dd

Author : M. Allingham
Publisher : Hachette Digital
ISBN 13 : 9781405504928
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Beckoning Lady Aud Dd written by M. Allingham and published by Hachette Digital. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.

The Beckoning Lady

Author : Margery 1904-1966 Allingham
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014350169
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Beckoning Lady written by Margery 1904-1966 Allingham and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hide My Eyes

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Ipso Books
ISBN 13 : 1504048741
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Hide My Eyes written by Margery Allingham and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private detective Albert Campion hunts a serial killer in London’s theatre district, in this crime novel from “the best of mystery writers” (The New Yorker). A spate of murders leaves Campion with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin letter-case. These minimal leads, and a series of peculiar events, set the gentleman sleuth on a race against time that takes him from an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet corner of London to a scrapyard in the East End. Margery Allingham shows her dark edge in Hide My Eyes and evokes the sights, sounds, and inimitable atmosphere of 1950s London, once again proving herself “one of the finest ‘golden age’ crime novelists” (Sunday Telegraph). “Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.” —Sara Paretsky “Allingham’s characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains.” —Times Literary Supplement

More Work for the Undertaker

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087992
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book More Work for the Undertaker written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A top-notch mystery full of keen characterization, humor, old English atmosphere, a charmingly decadent family, and a few sudden deaths.” —The New York Times A beggarwoman on a bench arouses Albert Campion’s curiosity—and helps Scotland Yard lure him into a case of family dysfunction. The seemingly destitute woman is none other than a member of the eccentric Palinode family, which has recently lost two of its members. The police suspect a poisoner is on the loose, which is why Campion is willing to go undercover as a lodger in the boardinghouse where they live. As the recently deceased are exhumed, Campion becomes acquainted with the old-fashioned, out-of-the-ordinary family members, who talk in crossword puzzle clues, sneak out at night, and cook vats of stinky food in the basement to save money. And if that’s not enough to keep Campion on his toes, the local undertaker seems to be digging himself into a hole . . . Praise for Margery Allingham “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light.” —Agatha Christie “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 “Spending an evening with Campion is one of life’s pure pleasures.” —The Sunday Times

The Estate of the Beckoning Lady

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Estate of the Beckoning Lady written by Margery Allingham and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beckoning Fair One

Author : Oliver Onions
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486436470
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The Beckoning Fair One written by Oliver Onions and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Miles ahead of the average ghost-story" — Sunday Times. A novelist retreats to an abandoned house in the heart of London, where he becomes enthralled by an 18th-century spirit — and where his contact with the outside world gradually diminishes. Acclaimed by such masters as Lovecraft as one of the best ghost stories in the English language.

Black Plumes

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087968
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Black Plumes written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. “One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank.” —The New York Times Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents—a Kang-Tse vase broken, a specially commissioned catalog burned, and now a painting slashed—has young Frances Ivory on edge. She suspects that the instigator is her stepsister’s husband, Robert Madrigal, but there’s not much she can do about it while her father is out of the country. Robert is even interfering in Frances’s love life, encouraging her to marry his loathsome assistant. To stop his infernal matchmaking, Frances agrees to a sham engagement with the painter whose work was defaced. But when Robert disappears after a confrontation with the artist, he’s found stashed in a cupboard, dead. Frances is now drawn into a mystery that will have her second-guessing her family, her fiancé, and even herself . . . Praise for Margery Allingham “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light.” —Agatha Christie “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

Coroner's Pidgin

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Ipso Books
ISBN 13 : 1504048709
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Coroner's Pidgin written by Margery Allingham and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.” —Sara Paretsky World War II is limping to a close and private detective Albert Campion has just returned from years abroad on a secret mission. Relaxing in his bath before rushing back to the country, and to the arms of his wife, Amanda, Campion is disturbed when his servant, Lugg, and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman. The reluctant Campion is forced to put his powers of detection to work as he is drawn deeper into the case, and into the eccentric Caradocs household, dealing with murder, treason, grand larceny, and the mysterious disappearance of some very valuable art. “Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered.” —P.D. James “Margery Allingham was one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel.” —Alexander McCall Smith

The Tiger in the Smoke

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Ipso Books
ISBN 13 : 1504048695
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Tiger in the Smoke written by Margery Allingham and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Tiger in the Smoke is a phenomenal novel.” —J. K. Rowling A fog is creeping through the weary streets of London—so too are whispers that the Tiger is back in town, undetected by the law, untroubled by morals. And the rumors are true: Jack Havoc, charismatic outlaw, knife-wielding killer, and ingenious jail-breaker, is on the loose once again. As Havoc stalks the smog-cloaked alleyways of the city, it falls to Albert Campion to hunt down the fugitive and put a stop to his rampage—before it’s too late . . . “Allingham’s work is always of the first rank.” —The New York Times

The Lady Elizabeth

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345512928
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Lady Elizabeth written by Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A masterful novel exploring the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would become England’s most intriguing and powerful queen, from acclaimed historian Alison Weir “Engrossing . . . Weir marries conjecture with what is known about the life of Elizabeth I from childhood to coronation, and it makes for ripping good reading.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Even at age two, Elizabeth is keenly aware that people in the court of her father, King Henry VIII, have stopped referring to her as “Lady Princess” and now call her “the Lady Elizabeth.” Before she is three, she learns of the tragic fate that has befallen her mother, the enigmatic and seductive Anne Boleyn, and that she herself has been declared illegitimate, an injustice that will haunt her. What comes next is a succession of stepmothers, bringing with them glimpses of love, fleeting security, tempestuous conflict, and tragedy. The death of her father puts the teenage Elizabeth in greater peril, leaving her at the mercy of ambitious and unscrupulous men. Like her mother two decades earlier she is imprisoned in the Tower of London—and fears she will also meet her mother’s grisly end. Power-driven politics, private scandal and public gossip, a disputed succession, and the grievous example of her sister, “Bloody” Queen Mary, all cement Elizabeth’s resolve in matters of statecraft and love, and set the stage for her transformation into the iconic Virgin Queen. Alison Weir uses her deft talents as historian and novelist to exquisitely and suspensefully play out the conflicts between family, politics, religion, and conscience that came to define an age. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her time—an orphaned girl haunted by the shadow of the axe, an independent spirit who must use her cunning and wits for her very survival, and a future queen whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir’s Mary Boleyn.

The Fashion in Shrouds

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504088360
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Fashion in Shrouds written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A custom-made killer shocks the fashionable London set in “one of the finest murder books ever written” featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (The New Yorker). Albert Campion’s sister is a success in her own right. A top fashion designer, she works for a legendary couturier and dresses Georgia Wells, the best-dressed actress in the world. Albert also has a connection to Georgia, but his is based on failure, not success. Georgia’s former fiancé disappeared nearly three years ago, and Campion has never been able to find him. Until now . . . The victim’s remains—discovered by Campion in a deserted country house—point to suicide. But the man’s father assumes it was foul play. In a rarified world of wealth and privilege where silence and secrets can be bought, the investigation won’t be easy, especially when another death takes center stage. This time, the victim is Georgia’s current husband—and starring in the role of prime suspect: Albert’s sister. “Top ranking whodunit in Dorothy Sayers tradition . . . Plus sale for non-mysteryites as first rate novel of fashionable London. Suspense—humor—well planned, well written.” —Kirkus Reviews Praise for Margery Allingham “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light.” —Agatha Christie “The best of mystery writers.” —The New Yorker “Allingham was a rare and precious talent.” —The Washington Post “Don’t start reading these books unless you are confident that you can handle addiction.” —The Independent

The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories written by Grant Allen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Allen was born in Canada, educated in France and the United Kingdom and worked in many places including Jamaica, during his lifetime. He was primarily a scientist, turning only to literature in later life. This is a collection of stories full of melodrama and intrigue.

The Case of the Late Pig

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Ipso Books
ISBN 13 : 1504048733
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Late Pig written by Margery Allingham and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man is killed five months after his funeral, in a tale by “one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel” (Alexander McCall Smith). Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peters’s body goes missing. It takes all Campion’s coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime. The Case of the Late Pig is, uniquely, narrated by Campion himself. In Allingham’s inimitable style, high drama sits neatly beside pitch-perfect black comedy. A heady mix of murder, romance, and the urbane detective's own unglamorous past make this an Allingham mystery not to be missed. “My very favourite of the four Queens of Crime is Allingham.”—J. K. Rowling “Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered.”—P.D. James

Lady Baltimore

Author : Owen Wister
Publisher : J.S. Sanders Books
ISBN 13 : 1461713781
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Lady Baltimore written by Owen Wister and published by J.S. Sanders Books. This book was released on 1992-09-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, a portrayal of the process of healing the wounds of war through reconciliation between Northerners and Southerners on a personal, not political, level. Southern Classics Series.

A Perilous Perspective

Author : Anna Lee Huber
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593198468
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book A Perilous Perspective written by Anna Lee Huber and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new historical mystery in this USA Today bestselling series featuring beloved inquiry agents Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage. Argyll, Scotland. July 1832. After a trying few months in Edinburgh, Kiera and her husband and investigative partner, Sebastian Gage, are eager to escape to the Highlands with their three-month-old child. Kiera is overjoyed for her cousin Rye and her detractor-turned-friend Charlotte who are being wed in a private ceremony at the estate of Rye’s great-uncle, the Marquess of Barbreck, in what seems to be the perfect wedding party. But when Kiera is invited to peruse Barbreck’s extensive art collection, she is disturbed to discover that one of his most priceless paintings seems to be a forgery. The marquess’s furious reaction when she dares to mention it leaves her shaken and the entire house shocked. For it turns out that this is not the first time the word forgery has been uttered in connection with the Barbreck household. Matters turn more ominous when a maid from a neighboring estate is found murdered where the forged painting hangs. Is her death connected to the forgeries, perhaps a grisly warning of what awaits those who dare to probe deeper? With unknown entities aligned against them, Kiera and Gage are forced to confront the fact that they may have underestimated their opponent. For they are swiftly made to realize that Charlotte’s and Rye’s future happiness is not the only issue at stake, and this stealthy game of cat and mouse could prove to have deadly consequences.