Margery Allingham Summary

Margery Allingham is preeminent 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... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement ["Blackerchief Dick" is a story] to please a young rather than a grown-up public and so the review of one young reader may be quoted ... Read more

Critical Essay by James Sandoe [Mr. Albert Campion's] earliest adventures were zany thrillers, cheerfully spun tarradiddles which poised him imperturbable as they ramped, and panted and raced ... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher I wish that I could express proper enthusiasm for Margery Allingham's ["Cargo of Eagles"] …; this is my final opportunity to review one o... Read more

Critical Essay by The New York Times Book Review Margery Allingham with her first book ["Black'erchief Dick"] has earned for herself no mean place in the ranks of the writers of ... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Joseph Miss Allingham has turned from detective fiction to a rather solemn and inconsequent variety of romantic psychology [with Dance of the Years, published in the United ... Read more

Critical Essay by Eudora Welty Mrs. Carter uses James Galantry as the focus of her idea [in "The Galantrys"]. Into her scrutiny of his character she pours her vision of past and future,... Read more