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Also known as Margery Louise Allingham, Maxwell March, Margery Louise Allingham Carter, Margery (Louise) Allingham

English writer of detective fiction, editor (1904–1966)

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Born
20 May 1904
Died
30 June 1966
Works
76

Top works

  • Death of a ghost
  • זר לשופט
  • Country House Murders
  • Six Against the Yard
  • THE ESTATE OF BEING THE BECKONING LADY

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1904-05-20
Active to
1966-06-30

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Total plays
3,338

Margery Louise Allingham (May 20, 1904 - June 30, 1966) was a writer born in Ealing in London, England who produced many novels, short stories, and plays, mainly in the crime and mystery genres. She is best known as creator of the detective/adventurer Albert Campion. Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in The Crime at Black Dudley (1929) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marg

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Quotes

  • Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
  • 'A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide."' (Italics in original)

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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
1923 – 1966
Genre
Mystery, crime fiction
Spouse
Philip Youngman Carter
Parents
Herbert Allingham and Emmie Allingham

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date of birth
1904-01-01
date of death
1966-01-01
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
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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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