I am on the email list for Margery Allingham's US publishers, and just got an email announcing the second Margery Allingham box set, and indicating that it will be on sale through the weekend only for $2.99. I myself already have all three of the titles, and the price of $2.99 for the three is not any better than the $0.99 each that they tend to be discounted at from time to time - but is better than the $3.99 each that seems to be the normal price. In any case, if you don't have any of these, this may be a convenient way to pick up three at once.
Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, The Case of the Late Pig
link:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LW81Z82
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“The best of mystery writers” – The New Yorker
Flowers for the Judge
Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar.
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.
Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion – but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever?
Death of a Ghost
John Sebastian Lafcadio’s ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death.
A set of twelve sealed paintings is left in the hands of his widow, together with the instruction that she unveil one canvas each year before a carefully selected audience.
Albert Campion is invited to join a cast of gadabouts, muses, and socialites to witness the eighth unveiling but they are treated instead to a murder. The lights go down, and a young man is stabbed to death.
Campion must get to work on the baffling case, with its long – suspiciously long – line-up of possible killers and soon finds himself having to face his dearest enemy…
The Case of the Late Pig
Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peter’s body goes missing. It takes all Campion’s coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.
The Case of the Late Pig is, uniquely, narrated by Campion himself. In Allingham’s inimitable style, high drama sits neatly beside pitch perfect black comedy. A heady mix of murder, romance, and the urbane detective’s own unglamorous past make this an unmissable Allingham mystery.
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