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Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
Margery Allingham was one of the highly reputed authors from England, who was famous for writing books based on the mystery and thriller genres. She was best remembered as an English author of golden age detective fiction novels, especially for the stories featuring the sleuth named Albert Campion. Author Margery was born as Margery Louise ...
Margery Allingham is pre-eminent among the writers who brought the detective story to maturity in the decades between the two world wars. She created an aristocratic, unassuming detective called Albert Campion, who matured from “just a silly ass” of the 1920s to an eminent intelligence veteran forty years later.
Margery Allingham (born May 20, 1904, London, England—died June 30, 1966, Colchester, Essex) was a British detective-story writer of unusual subtlety, wit, and imaginative power who created the bland, bespectacled, keen-witted Albert Campion, one of the most interesting of fictional detectives.
Margery Allingham was one of the four great ‘Queens of Crime’ from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. In her time, she sold more copies of her books than Christie.
Margery Allingham (1904-1966) is ranked among the most distinguished and beloved British crime writers and is often cited as a key influence on modern female writers including P.D James, Ruth Rendell, A.S. Byatt and J.K. Rowling.
Margery Louise Allingham was born in Ealing, London in 1904 to a family of writers. Her father, Herbert John Allingham, was editor of The Christian Globe and The New London Journal, while her mother wrote stories for women's magazines as Emmie Allingham.
Albert Campion Series. 21 primary works • 27 total works. Albert Campion, a suave sleuth with noble blood, and his assistant Magersfontein Lugg, in London, England. Series created and written by Margery Allingham; her final unfinished novel, Cargo of Eagles, was completed by her husband Youngman Carter who wrote two further entries in the series.
The Society was founded in 1988 to celebrate the life and works of Margery Allingham, one of the four great ‘Queens of Crime’ from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
A Writer to Remember: Margery Allingham. H.R.F. Keating. In this 2004 article from Mystery Scene, the late H.R.F. Keating (1926-2011) discusses one of the greats of the Golden Age of Mystery. Left: Margery Allingham (1904-1966) in her garden.
