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Les mystères d'Albert CampionSéries

Cette série suit un détective élégant et intelligent de naissance noble qui navigue dans les complexités du crime dans le Londres trépidant, souvent accompagné de son fidèle assistant. La prose magistrale de l'auteur et son sens aigu du détail atmosphérique donnent vie à chaque mystère avec suspense et rigueur intellectuelle. Les lecteurs apprécieront les intrigues complexes, les études de personnages nuancées et l'esprit subtil tissé tout au long des enquêtes. C'est une collection par excellence pour ceux qui apprécient la fiction policière classique avec un attrait sophistiqué et intemporel.

The Mind Readers
The Beckoning Lady
Mr Campion's Farthing
Der vollkommene Butler
The Fashion in Shrouds
Hide My Eyes

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    The crime at Black Dudley

    • 240pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    3,7(5991)Évaluer

    THE FIRST CAMPION MYSTERY 'Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light' Agatha Christie A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and a groupof London's brightest young things accepted an invitation to the mansion of Black Dudley. Skulduggery is most certainly afoot, and the party-goers soon realise that they're trapped in the secluded house. Amongst them is a stranger who promises to unravel the villainous plots behind their incarceration - but can George and his friends trust the peculiar young man who calls himself Albert Campion?

    The crime at Black Dudley
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    Sweet Danger

    • 288pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    4,0(2704)Évaluer

    Aristocratic detective Albert Campion is called upon by the British government to establish ownership of the tiny, oil-rich principality of Averna on the Adriatic Coast. The titled but impoverished Fitton family lay claim to it, but the deeds are nowhere to be found. With the help of his loyal chums and sidekick, retired cat burglar Magersfontein Lugg, Campion must pit his wits against a criminal financier and his heavies in order to unearth the truth.A quintessential Golden Age detective story and utterly gripping thriller, Sweet Danger displays Margery Allingham at her absolute best.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

    Sweet Danger
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    Death of a Ghost

    3,1(20)Évaluer

    The great artist John Lafcadio has been dead for 18 years and for the last 8 years his wife has organised a one painting exhibition of his remaining unseen work to keep his reputation alive. It is at the eighth gathering, that a young artist, Thomas Dacre, is murdered. Once the obvious suspects, Dacre's girlfriend Linda Lafcadio, and the art dealer Max Fustian, who makes a seemingly frivolous confession are dismissed, the case remains unsolved and hushed up. However, when the works and possessions of the murdered artist start to disappear and a further murder takes place in the Lafcadio extended household, the detective Albert Campion learns more about the dead artist's paintings and the identity of the murderer.

    Death of a Ghost
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    The Case of the Late Pig

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    Called to a quiet English country town to investigate a murder, Albert Campion finds that his old school chum Pig Peters is dead--again--and embarks on a quest to learn the truth about Pig's strange double life

    The Case of the Late Pig
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    Dancers in Mourning

    3,3(12)Évaluer

    When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling—Albert Campion.Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate and an ageing starlet is killed.Under pressure to uncover the culprit and plagued by his growing feelings for Sutane's wife, Campion finds himself uncomfortably embroiled in an investigation which tests his ingenuity and integrity to the limit.

    Dancers in Mourning
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    The Fashion in Shrouds

    • 288pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    3,8(22)Évaluer

    The novel centres on the famous actress Georgia Wells, and her romantic conquests. One of them is Alan Dell, who at first appears to be in love with the fashion designer Valentine Ferris, who happens to be Albert Campion's sister. Then Georgia's second husband is poisoned, and there is strange news of his predecessor. It is a novel filled with colourful aristocratic characters, including a reappearance of Lady Amanda Fitton, who has now trained as an airplane engineer, working with Alan Dell on his Alandel machines. The professional women Georgia, Val and Amanda are very much to the forefront and sexual politics are frequently discussed

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    The Tiger in the Smoke

    3,5(76)Évaluer

    Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city’s November smog before it is too late. Cover image from 1972 reprint

    The Tiger in the Smoke
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    The Beckoning Lady

    • 233pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    3,9(1065)Évaluer

    Private detective Albert Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill. Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic Suffolk village, but it is a less romantic peril than on Mr Campion’s first visit, more than twenty years ago. ‘Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors.’ - The Sunday Times ‘Allingham’s work is always of the first rank.’ – New York Times ‘Unforgettable.’ – A.S. Byatt

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    Hide My Eyes

    • 224pages
    • 8 heures de lecture
    3,8(120)Évaluer

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her `a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer.

    Hide My Eyes
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    The China Governess

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    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.

    The China Governess
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    Mr Campion's Farthing

    Inglewood Turrets, an expensive anachronism in the leafy outskirts of North London is a cross between St Pancreas Station and Holloway Gaol, and the house where the formidable Miss Charlotte Cambric recreates Victorian elegance for foreign culture-vultures. Vassily Kopeck, the half-Russian, half-Polish physicist and an 'attache of sorts', disappears as effectively as a cat who turns a corner in a London fog after a visit to The Turrets - and thereby becomes a wanted man. Then Felix Perdreau, the flamboyant rare book dealer and friend of Kopek also goes missing. Making a case for Albert Campion, who cannot resist a mystery?

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    Mr. Campion's Quarry

    3,4(6)Évaluer

    refined, cultured upper class dabbling in sleuthing and darned good at it. The kind of book to be read after dinner with a fire going in the fireplace, a glass of sherry and a biscuit or two. A delightful British whodunit whether read or watched.

    Mr. Campion's Quarry

  • The Return of Mr Campion

    Uncollected Stories

    • 224pages
    • 8 heures de lecture
    4,0(3)Évaluer

    A collection of stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion - hero of a BBC series - from what many consider to be the golden age of the detective story. Margery Allingham was the author of over twenty novels and story collections, including "Sweet Danger" and "Police at the Funeral".

    The Return of Mr Campion

  • Mr. Campion and Others

    • 288pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    3,5(21)Évaluer

    An old-time baker’s dozen of stories, in which Mr Albert Campion—with or without the help of the lugubrious Superintendent Oates—relieves friends and acquaintances from the inconveniences of assault, blackmail, confidence tricks and the like. As the Superintendent remarked at the close of a short, sharp case of espionage: ‘Campion, you frighten me. Something looks after you.’ Something does, and it’s generally Campion’s legion of disreputable friendsContents: The widow — The name on the wrapper — The hat trick — The question mark — The old man in the window — The white elephant — The Frenchman’s gloves — The longer view — Safe as houses — The definite article — The meaning of the act — A matter of form — The danger point

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  • The Allingham Minibus

    3,7(3)Évaluer

    “How many of the detective stories you read do you remember?” Not very many. And there Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. In this collection of eighteen short stories, Queen of Crime Margery Allingham dabbles in the occult, the mysterious, and the murderous. Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories with astute characterisations, brilliant humour, and her classic wit. With a tribute by Agatha Christie, this Golden Age collection is sure to dazzle and delight fans of this master of detective fiction. The Allingham Minibus was first published in 1973 and has also been published as Mr Campion’s Lucky Day and Other Stories.

    The Allingham Minibus