Coroner’s Pidgin

Cover Synopsis

‘The man and the woman carried the body cautiously up the stairs… Meanwhile, in the apartment above, Mr Albert Campion, who was in that particular state of ignorance wherein it is downright idiocy to be wise, was taking a warm bath.’

It is Mr Campion’s first moment of peace after three years of nameless service in the war. Catching his train is his only worry. But his peace is rudely interrupted by Lugg’s helpful disposal of the unknown woman foundd ead in the bed of Lord Carados on the eve of his wedding.

The machinations of a dotty dowager, the fate of a bottle of wine, a young widow in love and the affairs – public and private – of his lordship, Lugg’s feeling for his pig, treachery that threatens the nation and, of course, murder, all combine to keep Campion from his train and a vital meeting. But not for too long…

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First published by William Heinemann Ltd 1945

Penguin Edition – ISBN 0-14-016611-4

Cover art by Andrew Davidson

More Work For The Undertaker

Cover Synopsis

Will Albert Campion give up detection and turn respectable?

Perhaps… but after a series of coincidences, culminating in a letter from Lugg’s brother-in-law, Campion can no longer resist involvement in the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence, a dying convict’s last words and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile, the residents of Apron Street go about their nocturnal business… For Campion, finding the truth is a very dificult and dangerous undertaking.

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First published by William Heinemann Ltd 1949

Penguin Edition – ISBN 0-14-008777-X

Cover art by Andrew Davidson

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Interesting Fact

The edition sited above was the first unabridged edition of what is considered Margery Allingham’s blackest comedy to be published by Penguin in over twnety years.

Death Of A Ghost

Cover Synopsis

How could a painting commit murder… ?

John Sebastian Lafcadio, R.A., ‘probably the greatest painter since Rembrandt’ (according to himself), is dead. But his influence is not.

He wanted lasting fame and he left instructions to his wife, Belle, for one painting to be exhibited every year after his death. Eight years later in Little Venice, a select group of friends and family gather to view the eighth painting.  They are treated instead to a murder. The lights go down, and a young man is stabbed to death.

Albert Campion is one of the guests, and in his deceptively calm way he gets to work onthe baffling case, with its long – suspiciously long – line-up of possible killers. Soon Campion finds himself having to fac his dearest enemy…

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First published by William Heinemann Ltd 1934

Penguin Edition – ISBN 0-14-008423-1

Cover art by Andrew Davidson