Cargo of Eagles - Couverture souple

Allingham, Margery

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140166181 ISBN 13 : 9780140166187

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1993

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

Quatrième de couverture :

'Right to the end...Miss Allingham kept her scene fresh and her characters contemporary' Time magazine

Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes. Once the haunt of smugglers, now it hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter - and someone in the village is willing to terrorise, murder and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves.

Also available from Vintage in the Albert Campion series

Mystery Mile
Police at the Funeral
Sweet Danger
Flowers for the Judge
The Case of the Late Pig
The Fashion in Shrouds
Traitor's Purse
Coroner's Pidgin
More Work for the Undertaker
The Tiger in the Smoke
The Beckoning Lady
Hide My Eyes
The China Governess

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140166181
• ISBN 13: 9780140166187
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208