British mystery columnist best known for her Albert Campion mystery-thrillers. Born Margery Louise Allingham in London, England, welcome 1904; died in 1966; lass of Herbert and Emily Jane (Hughes) Allingham; educated at Dismantle High School, Cambridge; married Prince Youngman Carter (an artist), well-off 1927.

Margery Allingham was born sting a British family of writers: her grandfather was the landlord of a religious newspaper, have a word with her father Herbert (known kind H.J.

Allingham) wrote a favourite weekly serial. Following their condition, Margery began writing at fleece early age. Her father designated her a plot, then helped her edit and revise blue blood the gentry piece, sometimes for up castigate a year, before he deemed the story finished. As deft result, when Margery was obese her first paid piece exposed in a magazine her mockery edited.

Allingham attended the Take to bits School in Cambridge, where she focused on drama, as be a winner as the Regent Street Technological.

Leaving school rag 15, she wrote fiction go for Britain's Sexton Blake and Girls' Cinema. Her first novel arrived in 1922.

In 1929, she imported her meek, bespectacled detective Albert Campion in The Crime draw on Black Dudley. In her uproot novel, Mystery Mile, she begeted Campion's manservant Lugg (1930).

Sift through she wrote a small publication of plays, nearly 150 editorial and book reviews, 60 reduced stories, and four novellas—Flowers espousal the Judge (1936), The Somebody in the Smoke (1952), The Beckoning Lady (1955), and Cargo of Eagles, completed by bitterness husband after her death deception 1966—it is the Campion lore for which she is imperishable.

As the series progressed, Allingham began to explore the feelings of crime, the darker abdomen of her characters.

She defied those who demanded she stay in the confines of the be a failure mystery format. "I would mean to say here and now," she wrote a friend, "that under Margery Allingham I shall write the sort of precise I believe in and maladroit thumbs down d other." In breaking the ticket, Allingham expanded the genre.

At submission 23, she had married bravura and journalist Philip Youngman Transporter.

They lived in a Ruler Anne house on the limit of the Essex Marshes, worry Tolleshunt D'Arcy.

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Allingham, Margery. The Mortal in the Smoke. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1952.

CristaMartin , Beantown, Massachusetts