The China Governess

A Mystery

Margery Allingham

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Vintage
18 August 2016

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Albert Campion7

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

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

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

Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private detective Albert Campion. Kinnit is rich, handsome and successful, but his past is a mystery to him and he needs Campion to find out how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own - involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess - that must also be brought to light by Campion's investigations.

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

By: Margery Allingham
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 182g
ISBN: 9780099506119
ISBN 10: 0099506114
Series: Albert Campion7
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 18 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The China Governess: A Mystery

Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world Tatler One of the finest 'golden age' crime novelists Sunday Telegraph Faultless The Times Miss Allingham is one of the few writers who can deal with art. Both her passions and her patterns are beautiful, accurate and serene Daily Telegraph