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From the s to the s, Allingham was one of England's premier detective authors and it wasn't until the s that her output began to decline. In the early s Allingham developed breast cancer and she succumbed in at Severalls Hospital in Colchester. She was a member of the Detection Club.

All Rights Reserved eBooks-Library. General Reference. 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.

Seven people had good cause. It was not lack of evidence that sent Detective Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry half across Europe to unravel a chaos of clues. The White Cottage Mystery was Margery Allingham's first detective story, published initially as a newspaper serial.

Her sister Joyce has now skillfully revised the text to reveal a sharply plotted period piece stamped with the genius of a great and familiar hand. A baker's dozen of cases, each putting Albert Campion through his paces.

It sped through the weeping of the storm and stood close to them. They waited in silence and let it come again, still discreet but a fraction sharper, determined, inexorable. Lugg glanced over his shoulder. Campion was well in the shadow, so he picked up his gun and advanced towards the window with all the easy confidence of an innocent householder expecting a visit from the police.

He drew back the curtains cautiously, as a good citizen should, allowing only the minimum of light to escape. For some seconds he stood peering into the darkness, alert as a dog at a rat-hole. Finally he unlatched the doors and pushed one of them open a few inches. There was no direct reply but there was a new movement out in the storm and Lugg became tense, his bald head with its fringe of greyish hair held oddly on one side.

Standing just below him in the driving rain was the figure he expected. The starting scene of the novel shows that Albert Campion gets summoned to the Kepesake village in order to investigate a distasteful death of one of the villagers.

It turns out that the victim is a man named Pig Peters, who was believed to be dead around 5 months ago. Later, a number of other dead bodies are also found which hint at a link with the murder of Pig Peters. Meanwhile, Albert Campion comes to know that the dead body of Pig Peters has gone missing. As the case begins to grow more and more complicated, Albert Campion is required to use all his incisive powers to unravel the deadly crimes.

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