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Oct 31, 2024 1:29 AM

Author:Margery Allingham

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?

In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.

As urbane as Lord Wimsey…as ingenious as Poirot… Meet one of crime fiction’s Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

Reviews

As addictive as cocaine, Allingham's stories feature spooky happenings and violent death

—— Independent

One of the finest “golden age” crime novelists

—— Sunday Telegraph

Allingham's characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains

—— Times Literary Supplement

Read the book for its teeming sarcasm, its humor and its portrait of a dying detective and his tender, almost beautiful, relationships to friends and family – and perhaps to get a sharpened view of morals and revenge.

—— Fyns Amtsavis, Denmark

Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers

—— Daily Mail

The new Ian Rankin

—— Daily Record

Classy, occasionally brutal, and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural, this will doubtless be another deserved hit. Oswald's writing is in a class above most in this genre and McLean - his rich, idealistic and all-too-human detective - is the perfect counterpoint to Ian Rankin's cynical Inspector Rebus

—— Daily Express

A gripping page-turner

—— Bella

A treat of a thriller that careers along at breakneck page

—— Good Housekeeping's Good Reads

The Couple Next Doors hits all those thriller sweet spots, with its characters acting in the worst ways possible and a plot that speeds through to a hell of a climax....you can’t not read it this summer.

—— Stylist

Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. The Couple Next Door lingers long after you turn the final page

—— Harlan Coben

Lapena leads us on a cunningly plotted cat-and-mouse trail to the truth while building a horribly queasy portrait of a marriage under terrific strain

—— Metro

Gripped me from the very beginning to the very end!

—— Becky Masterman, author of RAGE AGAINST THE DYING

I read this novel at one sitting absolutely riveted by the storyline. The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!

—— Sue Grafton

…stark, bluntly told emotional thriller. Dizzying hairpin twists and turns.

—— Sainsbury's magazine

Gripping, pacy, with characters that keep you guessing and second guessing. Loved it

—— Tammy Cohen

A riveting thriller.

—— woman&home

[A] suspenseful, heart-wrenching debut

—— Publishers Weekly

The new The GIRL ON THE TRAIN.

—— I MAGAZINE

Every chapter poses another question in this gripping thriller documenting every parent’s worst fear

—— Essentials

Twisty, frenetic...tight, effective storytelling

—— Guardian

Compulsive and the denouement comes as a satisfying surprise.

—— The i

a gripping, twisting story in which you're never quite sure of anyone's motives until they're shockingly exposed.

—— Crime Scene

Told in a realistic and un-hysterical way, the twists and turns are all the more shocking - the best white-knuckle ride of the year.

—— Daily Mail

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