Případy());Albert Campion Série

Tato série představuje elegantního detektiva s aristokratickými kořeny, který se spolu se svým věrným asistentem pouští do řešení zapeklitých zločinů v pulzujícím Londýně. Autorčina mistrovská próza a schopnost vykreslit atmosféru doby činí z každého případu napínavé a intelektuálně stimulující čtení. Příběhy se vyznačují propracovanými zápletkami, psychologickou hloubkou postav a jemným humorem. Fanoušci klasických detektivek ocení sofistikovanost a nadčasovou přitažlivost těchto vyšetřování.

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The crime at Black Dudley
Margery Allingham
240 stránek
9 hodin čtení
3,7(5991)Ohodnotit
THE FIRST CAMPION MYSTERY 'Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light' Agatha Christie A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and a groupof London's brightest young things accepted an invitation to the mansion of Black Dudley. Skulduggery is most certainly afoot, and the party-goers soon realise that they're trapped in the secluded house. Amongst them is a stranger who promises to unravel the villainous plots behind their incarceration - but can George and his friends trust the peculiar young man who calls himself Albert Campion?
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Mystery Mile
Margery Allingham
3,9(3974)Ohodnotit
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. The enigmatic amateur sleuth bundles the Judge off to the country house of Mystery Mile, where it's a race against time to keep the Simister posse at bay - and to pinpoint the identity of the mastermind behind their criminal empire...
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Look to the Lady
Margery Allingham
274 stránek
10 hodin čtení
3,9(2257)Ohodnotit
Originally published: London: Jarrolds, 1931.
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Police at the Funeral
Margery Allingham
3,9(12)Ohodnotit
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. No time is wasted in summoning Albert Campion and his sleuthing skills away from the bustle of Piccadilly to investigate - but little does he expect to be greeted by a band of eccentric relatives all at daggers with each other.
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Sweet Danger
Margery Allingham
288 stránek
11 hodin čtení
4,0(2704)Ohodnotit
Aristocratic detective Albert Campion is called upon by the British government to establish ownership of the tiny, oil-rich principality of Averna on the Adriatic Coast. The titled but impoverished Fitton family lay claim to it, but the deeds are nowhere to be found. With the help of his loyal chums and sidekick, retired cat burglar Magersfontein Lugg, Campion must pit his wits against a criminal financier and his heavies in order to unearth the truth.A quintessential Golden Age detective story and utterly gripping thriller, Sweet Danger displays Margery Allingham at her absolute best.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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Death of a Ghost
Margery Allingham
3,1(20)Ohodnotit
The great artist John Lafcadio has been dead for 18 years and for the last 8 years his wife has organised a one painting exhibition of his remaining unseen work to keep his reputation alive. It is at the eighth gathering, that a young artist, Thomas Dacre, is murdered. Once the obvious suspects, Dacre's girlfriend Linda Lafcadio, and the art dealer Max Fustian, who makes a seemingly frivolous confession are dismissed, the case remains unsolved and hushed up. However, when the works and possessions of the murdered artist start to disappear and a further murder takes place in the Lafcadio extended household, the detective Albert Campion learns more about the dead artist's paintings and the identity of the murderer.
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Flowers for the Judge
Margery Allingham
4,0(1928)Ohodnotit
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm - cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise - and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier.
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The Case of the Late Pig
Margery Allingham
3,5(2)Ohodnotit
Called to a quiet English country town to investigate a murder, Albert Campion finds that his old school chum Pig Peters is dead--again--and embarks on a quest to learn the truth about Pig's strange double life
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Dancers in mourning
Margery Allingham
3,3(12)Ohodnotit
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWhen song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling - Albert Campion.
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The Fashion in Shrouds
Margery Allingham
288 stránek
11 hodin čtení
3,8(22)Ohodnotit
The novel centres on the famous actress Georgia Wells, and her romantic conquests. One of them is Alan Dell, who at first appears to be in love with the fashion designer Valentine Ferris, who happens to be Albert Campion's sister. Then Georgia's second husband is poisoned, and there is strange news of his predecessor. It is a novel filled with colourful aristocratic characters, including a reappearance of Lady Amanda Fitton, who has now trained as an airplane engineer, working with Alan Dell on his Alandel machines. The professional women Georgia, Val and Amanda are very much to the forefront and sexual politics are frequently discussed
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Traitor's Purse
Margery Allingham
208 stránek
8 hodin čtení
4,0(1558)Ohodnotit
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancee, Campion struggles desperately to put the pieces together while the very fate of England is at stake.
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Coroner’s Pidgin
Margery Allingham
3,8(127)Ohodnotit
Campion returns from three years work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his manservant, has brought him an unusual gift - the black silk nightdress-clad body of a dead woman, an apparent suicide. Now, Campion must assist Detective Chief Inspector Oates and Superintendent Yeo in unravelling a plot of deception and murder. Originally pu.
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More Work for the Undertaker
Margery Allingham
4,0(1689)Ohodnotit
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'.In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths.
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The Tiger in the Smoke
Margery Allingham
3,5(76)Ohodnotit
Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city’s November smog before it is too late. Cover image from 1972 reprint
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The Beckoning Lady
Margery Allingham
244 stránek
9 hodin čtení
3,9(1065)Ohodnotit
Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.
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Hide My Eyes
Margery Allingham
224 stránek
8 hodin čtení
3,8(120)Ohodnotit
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her `a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer.
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The China Governess
Margery Allingham
3,6(22)Ohodnotit
Kinnit is rich, handsome and successful, but his past is a mystery to him and he needs Campion to find out how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum.
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The Mind Readers
Margery Allingham
3,1(16)Ohodnotit
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it.
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Cargo of Eagles
Margery Allingham
4,0(2)Ohodnotit
Private detective Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes. Once the haunt of smugglers, it now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter - and someone in the village is willing to terrorise, murder and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves.
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Mr Campion's Farthing
Youngman Carter
Inglewood Turrets, an expensive anachronism in the leafy outskirts of North London is a cross between St Pancreas Station and Holloway Gaol, and the house where the formidable Miss Charlotte Cambric recreates Victorian elegance for foreign culture-vultures. Vassily Kopeck, the half-Russian, half-Polish physicist and an 'attache of sorts', disappears as effectively as a cat who turns a corner in a London fog after a visit to The Turrets - and thereby becomes a wanted man. Then Felix Perdreau, the flamboyant rare book dealer and friend of Kopek also goes missing. Making a case for Albert Campion, who cannot resist a mystery?
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Mr. Campion's Quarry
Youngman Carter
3,4(6)Ohodnotit
refined, cultured upper class dabbling in sleuthing and darned good at it. The kind of book to be read after dinner with a fire going in the fireplace, a glass of sherry and a biscuit or two. A delightful British whodunit whether read or watched.

Der vollkommene Butler
Margery Allingham
The Return of Mr Campion
Uncollected Stories
Margery Allingham
224 stránek
8 hodin čtení
4,0(3)Ohodnotit
A collection of stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion - hero of a BBC series - from what many consider to be the golden age of the detective story. Margery Allingham was the author of over twenty novels and story collections, including "Sweet Danger" and "Police at the Funeral".
The Allingham Case-Book
Margery Allingham
3,5(11)Ohodnotit
Eighteen succulent mysteries from the Queen of Crime, guaranteed to baffle the most ingenious of armchair detectives - and even, at times, the imperturbable Albert Campion himself. Enjoy Margery Allingham at her witty best as she spins delicious tales of high risk heists and domestic deceptions in this exquisite short story collection. CONTENTS : Tall Story Three is a Lucky Number The Villa Marie Celeste The Psychologist Little Miss Know-All One Morning They'll Hang Him The Lieabout Face Value Evidence in Camera Joke Over The Lying-in-State The Pro and the Con Is There a Doctor in the House? The Border-Line Case They Never Get Caught The Mind's Eye Mystery Mum Knows Best The Snapdragon and the C. I. D. 'A perfectly splendid collection of short stories, richly imbred with that unique flavour Miss Allingham distilled so well' - H. R. F. Keating
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Mr. Campion and Others
Margery Allingham
288 stránek
11 hodin čtení
3,5(21)Ohodnotit
An old-time baker’s dozen of stories, in which Mr Albert Campion—with or without the help of the lugubrious Superintendent Oates—relieves friends and acquaintances from the inconveniences of assault, blackmail, confidence tricks and the like. As the Superintendent remarked at the close of a short, sharp case of espionage: ‘Campion, you frighten me. Something looks after you.’ Something does, and it’s generally Campion’s legion of disreputable friendsContents: The widow — The name on the wrapper — The hat trick — The question mark — The old man in the window — The white elephant — The Frenchman’s gloves — The longer view — Safe as houses — The definite article — The meaning of the act — A matter of form — The danger point
The Allingham Minibus
Margery Allingham
3,7(3)Ohodnotit
“How many of the detective stories you read do you remember?” Not very many. And there Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. In this collection of eighteen short stories, Queen of Crime Margery Allingham dabbles in the occult, the mysterious, and the murderous. Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories with astute characterisations, brilliant humour, and her classic wit. With a tribute by Agatha Christie, this Golden Age collection is sure to dazzle and delight fans of this master of detective fiction. The Allingham Minibus was first published in 1973 and has also been published as Mr Campion’s Lucky Day and Other Stories.