Aka Maxwell March. 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. Margery's aunt, Maud Hughes, also ran a magazine. Margery earned her first fee at the age of eight, for a story printed in her aunt's magazine. Soon after Margery's birth, the family left London for Essex. She returned to London in 1920 to attend the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster), and met her future husband, Philip Youngman Carter. They married in 1928. He was her collaborator and designed the cover jackets for many of her books. Margery's breakthrough came 1929 with the publication of her second novel, The Crime at Black Dudley . The novel introduced Albert Campion, although only as a minor character. After pressure from her American publishers, Margery brought Campion back for Mystery Mile and continued to use Campion as a character throughout her career. After a battle with breast cancer, Margery died in 1966. Her husband finished her last novel, A Cargo of Eagles at her request, and published it in 1968.
Series
Books
Three is a Lucky Number
1956
Safer Than Love
1954
Dancers in Mourning
1937
Death of a Ghost
1934
Hide My Eyes
2015
Bodies from the Library 2
Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden Age Detection
2019
Classic Crime Short Stories
2001
The Allingham Minibus
1973
No Love Lost
1954
The Essential Margery Allingham Collection
Sweet Danger, Traitor's Purse, The Tiger in the Smoke
2016
Capital Crimes
London Mysteries
2015
Mr. Campion's Lady
1965
The Allingham Casebook
1969
Black Plumes
1940
Pearls Before Swine
1945
Mystery Mile
1930
Mr. Campion
Criminologist
1937
A Christmas Most Foul
A Collection of Holiday Mysteries
2018
Return of Mr. Campion
Uncollected Stories
1989
Deadly Duo
1950
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
The Fashion in Shrouds
1938
Flowers for the Judge
1936
My Friend Mr. Campion and Other Mysteries
2011
The White Cottage Mystery
1927
Look to the Lady
1931
Crime and Mr. Campion
1959
Sweet Danger
1933
A Surprise For Christmas
And Other Seasonal Mysteries
2020
Campion Takes the Stage
Dancers in Mourning, The Fashion in Shrouds, Hide My Eyes
2019
The Mind Readers
1965
The Darings of the Red Rose
1930
The Crime at Black Dudley
1929
Cargo of Eagles
1968
The Beckoning Lady
1955
More Work for the Undertaker
1948
The Patient at Peacocks Hall
1954
Police at the Funeral
1931
Campion at Christmas
4 Holiday Stories
2018
Black'erchief Dick
1923
Mr Campion and Others
1939
Six Against the Yard
1937
The China Governess
1962
Traitor's Purse
1941
The Case of the Late Pig
1937
The Oaken Heart
1941
The Tiger in the Smoke
1952
Tether's End
1958
The Man with the Sack
2017
