Hide My Eyes
About Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham is pre-eminent among the writers who brought the detective story to maturity in the decades between the two world wars. She was born in London in 1904, and her first novel was published when she was seventeen, with her first detective story, The White Cottage Mystery, following in 1928. Her next book, The Crime at Black Dudley (1929), introduced the character who was to become the hallmark of her writing: Albert Campion. Atmospheric, intelligent and observant, her novels have been compared to those of Dickens for her evocation of the city’s shady underworld. She died in 1966.