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Margery Allingham was a prolific writer who sold her first story at age eight and published her first novel before turning 20. Allingham went on to become one of the pre-eminent writers who helped bring the detective story to maturity in the 1920s and 1930s.
"""Allingham 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"
