The Mind Readers

Author: Allingham, Margery

Brand: VINTAGE

Color: Purple

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 256

Release Date: 07-10-2008

Details: Product Description
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Private detective Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career.As urbane as Lord Wimsey…as ingenious as Poirot… Meet one of crime fiction’s Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
Review
Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. Everything she writes has a definite shape...each book has its own separate and distinctive background

Miss Allingham has a strong, well controlled sense of humour, a power of suggesting character with a few touches and an excellent English style. She has a sense of the fantastic, and is never dull ―
Times Literary Supplement

The real queen of crime ―
Guardian
About the Author
Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. She sold her first story at age 8 and published her first novel before turning 20. She married the artist, journalist and editor Philip Youngman Carter in 1927. In 1928 Allingham published her first detective story,
The White Cottage Mystery, and
the following year, in
The Crime at Black Dudley, she introduced the detective who was to become the hallmark of her sophisticated crime novels and murder mysteries - Albert Campion. Famous for her London thrillers, such as
Hide My Eyes and
The Tiger in the Smoke, Margery Allingham has been compared to Dickens in her evocation of the city's shady underworld. Acclaimed by crime novelists such as P.D. James, Allingham is counted alongside Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Gladys Mitchell as a pre-eminent Golden Age crime writer. Margery Allingham died in 1966.

EAN: 9780099513278

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English