The Black Dudley Murder

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Campion, Albert (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780099593492

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The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham Pdf

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?

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066363222

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The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham Pdf

In this enthralling crime novel penned by Margery Allingham, a secluded gathering takes a chilling turn at Black Dudley. As the guests, a dubious group with hidden motives, partake in the eerie Black Dudley Dagger ceremony, tragedy strikes with the death of Colonel Coombe. Pathologist George Abbershaw's suspicions ignite, and when a crucial item goes missing, a gang of criminals seizes control, holding the trapped guests hostage. Amidst the gripping suspense, questions linger: Can they escape the clutches of the ominous manor? What truly transpired with the Colonel? And who is the enigmatic figure known as Mr. Campion?

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380705753

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The Black Dudley Murder by Margery Allingham Pdf

Murder turns a weekend house part at Black Dudley Manor into a deadly affair when the host is discovered brutally slain. Detective Albert Campion is there to sift through the motives and clues with his signature charm.

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Campion, Albert (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0140093818

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The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham Pdf

A house-party with a glittering guest-list. An imposing country estate with endless shadowy staircases and unused rooms. The breathless period between the two world wars. It's the ideal setting for the classic English murder mystery, and bringing it to perfection is the introduction in a supporting role, for the first and last time of Albert Campion, the consummate (if compulsively quipping) Gentleman Sleuth. The guests take some time to be grateful for Campion's presence; he is a bit peculiar, and they have more than enough distractions, what with various complicated love affairs, a curious ritual involving a jewelled dagger, and a deadly game of hide-and-seek. But the savvy reader will be singing hosannas from Campion's first appearance, knowing that it marks the beginning of one of the most intelligent and delightful series in the history of crime fiction. "An extremely fine tale of death in an English country house" New York Times "In Margery Allingham's hands the detective novel is transformed from a craft into an art" The Sunday Telegraph (UK) Fans of Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, and the Golden Age of British Mystery

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Campion, Albert (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 193339742X

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The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham Pdf

"A house-party with a glittering guest-list. An imposing country estate with endless shadowy staircases and unused rooms. The breathless period between the two world wars ... The guests take some time to be grateful for Campion's presence; he is a bit peculiar, and they have more than enough distractions, what with various complicated love affairs, a curious ritual involving a jewelled dagger, and a deadly game of hide-and-seek ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798774617357

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The Crime at Black Dudley Illustrated Edition by Margery Allingham Pdf

When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Campion, Albert (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:1237510664

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The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham Pdf

Author : Margery Louise Allingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:320841969

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The crime at Black Dudley by Margery Louise Allingham Pdf

Author : Steven Dudley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135954253

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Walking Ghosts by Steven Dudley Pdf

In Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Union (UP), the party established by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest guerrilla group. Through stories of the politicians, drug kingpins, revolutionaries, and mercenaries who play key roles in Colombia's civil strife, Dudley maps out the complicated and murderous absurdity that is present-day Colombia, where daily life has devastating consequences: 30,000 murders per year, 75 political assassinations per week, 10 kidnappings a day. As the conflict gets bloodier, international pressure and influence mounts: Worried about the FARC's strength and its role in the drug trade, the United States has sent close to three billion dollars in aid to help the Colombian government fight the FARC. Steven Dudley seeks to make sense of this complicated conflict by focusing on the stories of key actors in the struggle, from the earliest days to the present. He has seen the civil war up close: dead bodies; paramilitaries; guerrillas; victims; and survivors. He has witnessed political parties grappling for power by any means necessary, and he's spoken to all sides and asked the difficult questions. Fast-paced and informative, with a new afterword by the author, Walking Ghosts presents a window into a conflict likely to shape the politics of this hemisphere for years to come.

Author : Colin Dexter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330468909

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The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter Pdf

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger award, The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse. That night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings. And in Morse's muddled computer of a mind, that siren took the name of one Joanna Franks . . . Early in the morning of the 22nd of June, 1859, the body of Joanna Franks was found floating at Duke’s Cut along the Oxford Canal – an event which led to the trial and hanging of two suspected murderers. A hundred and thirty years later Chief Inspector Morse is bedbound and recovering from a perforated ulcer at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital when he is handed an old book to read, one that recounts the trial of a murder aboard the Barbara Bray canal boat: the murder of Joanna Franks. Investigating the account of the trial, Morse begins to question whether the two men hanged were truly guilty and sets out to prove his suspicions from the confines of his hospital bed . . . The Wench is Dead is followed by the ninth Inspector Morse book, The Jewel That Was Ours.

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190998

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Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mystery Mile" by Margery Allingham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448206865

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The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham Pdf

Classic Crime from the Golden Age. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling's favourite Golden Age author. Eric Crowther collected secrets and used them as weapons. Delighting in nothing more than torturing those around him with what he knew, there is no shortage of suspects when he is found dead in the White Cottage. Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry will have to look deep into everyone's past – including the victim's – before they can be sure who has pulled the trigger. The fact that Jerry is in love with one of the suspects, however, might complicate things. The White Cottage Mystery was Margery Allingham's first detective story, originally written as a serial for the Daily Express in 1927 and published as a book a year later. With a country house, blackmail and murder, The White Cottage Mystery is a classic of the Golden Age of detective fiction.

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504087384

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Hide My Eyes by Margery Allingham Pdf

Private detective Albert Campion hunts a serial killer in London’s theatre district, in this crime novel from “the best of mystery writers” (The New Yorker). A spate of murders leaves Campion with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin letter-case. These minimal leads, and a series of peculiar events, set the gentleman sleuth on a race against time that takes him from an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet corner of London to a scrapyard in the East End. Margery Allingham shows her dark edge in Hide My Eyes and evokes the sights, sounds, and inimitable atmosphere of 1950s London, once again proving herself “one of the finest ‘golden age’ crime novelists” (Sunday Telegraph). “Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.” —Sara Paretsky “Allingham’s characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains.” —Times Literary Supplement

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190950

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Mr Campion and Others by Margery Allingham Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mr Campion and Others" by Margery Allingham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Steven Dudley
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781488095344

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MS-13 by Steven Dudley Pdf

“One of the year’s most important books, a gripping meticulously reported account of the rise of one of the world’s most notorious street gangs.” —Mitch Weiss, Pulitzer Prize winner Winner of the Lukas Prize An NPR Best Book of the Year The MS-13 was born from war. In the 1980s, Alex and his brother fled El Salvador for the US and formed the Mara Salvatrucha Stoners. Initially bound by a love of heavy metal music, the group soon took on a harder edge, selling drugs, stealing cars and killing rivals. Gang members like Alex were incarcerated and deported. But in the prison system, the group only grew stronger. Today, MS-13 is one of the most infamous street gangs on earth—and also largely misunderstood. Longtime organized crime investigator Steven Dudley brings readers inside the nefarious group to tell a broader story of flawed US and Central American policies and the exploitative, unequal systems that shape them. “A remarkable feat of reporting; the ways in which the United States is complicit in the creation and preservation of MS-13 might well keep you awake deep into the night, as it did me.” —Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises “By detailing the experiences of gang members and victims alike, he anatomizes the complex, fluid dynamics of this elusive transnational network. A startling book.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times–bestselling author of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks “The definitive account of MS-13 . . . An outstanding book for true crime readers.” —Library Journal (starred review)