English Literature, 20th cent. to the Present: Biographies

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Allingham, Margery (Louise)

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Allingham, Margery (Louise) (1904–66), crime novelist, educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, which she left at the age of 15. She began to write for periodicals when young, and introduced her deceptively vacuous detective-hero Albert Campion in The Crime at Black Dudley (1929). He reappeared, along with his manservant Lugg and Charles Luke of the CID, in such works as Flowers for the Judge (1936), More Work for the Undertaker (1949), and The Beckoning Lady (1955). Atmospheric, intelligent, and observant, her works have maintained their popularity although they have a strong period flavour.

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