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 preeminent writers who helped bring the detective story to maturity in the 1920s and 1930s.
""As addictive as cocaine, Allingham's stories feature spooky happenings and violent death"" Independent ""One of the finest ""golden age"" crime novelists"" Sunday Telegraph ""Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered"" ""Allingham's characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains"" Times Literary Supplement