Margery Allingham
English writer of detective fiction, editor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 ā 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
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Born | Margery Louise Allingham (1904-05-20)20 May 1904 Ealing, London, UK |
Died | 30 June 1966(1966-06-30) (aged 62) Colchester, Essex, England |
Pen name | Margery Allingham Maxwell March |
Occupation | Novelist |
Period | 1923ā1966 |
Genre | Mystery, crime fiction |
Spouse | Philip Youngman Carter |
Parents | Herbert Allingham and Emmie Allingham |
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Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Initially believed to be a parody of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Campion matured into a strongly individual character, part-detective, part-adventurer, who formed the basis for 18 novels and many short stories.