Margery Allingham
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English writer of detective fiction, editor (1904–1966)
Key facts
- 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
- 1923 – 1966
- Genre
- Mystery, crime fiction
- Spouse
- Philip Youngman Carter
- Parents
- Herbert Allingham and Emmie Allingham
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louise
- Family name
- Allingham
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Ealing
- Place of death
- Colchester
- Occupation
- editor
- Educated at
- University of Westminster
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- detective literature
- Genre
- detective fiction
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- date of birth
- 1904-01-01
- date of death
- 1966-01-01
- cause of death
- breast cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Detection Club
- birth name
- Margery Louise Allingham
- Commons category
- Margery Allingham
- start of work period
- 1923-00-00
- pseudonym
- Maxwell March
- name in native language
- Margery Louise Allingham Carter
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 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.
Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion, who first appeared in her novel The Crime at Black Dudley (1929). 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.
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