The Adventures of Margery Allingham

So, was there a corpse underneath the sofa? A visiting friend once said to Margery Allingham: 'My dear Marge, although you write crime novels, you do have a dainty drawing room!' 'What did she expect?' Margery wondered. 'Did she think I would keep a corpse under my sofa?' Margery Allingham, the creator of Albert Campion, is one of detective fiction's greatest 'Queens of Crime'. From the late 1920s until her death in 1966 she produced a series of novels as deliciously humorous as they are surr