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Book SynopsisA VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the ''true queen'' of the classic murder mystery?
Celebrated detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of vital importance to His Majesty''s government before his accident. On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancée, Campion struggles desperately to put the pieces together while the very fate of England is at stake.
As urbane as Lord Wimseyas ingenious as Poirot Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
Trade ReviewAllingham is the best of mystery writers * New Yorker *
Always of the elect, Margery Allingham now towers above them * Observer *
Don't start reading these books unless you are confident that you can handle addiction * Independent *
Allingham was a contemporary of Agatha Christie but her work is thought by many to be more stylish and less pedestrian, with cunning plots and witty characters * Sunday Express *
This novel has the most amazing plot of any thriller I know... A startlingly good book -- A.S. Byatt * Guardian *
