Death of a Ghost
IPSO Books (Verlag)
978-1-911295-12-9 (ISBN)
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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...
‘Margery Allingham was one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel.’ — Alexander McCall Smith
‘Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered.’ — P.D. James
‘The real queen of crime.’ — Guardian
‘As addictive as cocaine.’ — Independent
Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London in 1904 to a family immersed in literature. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick , was published in 1923 when she was 19. Her first work of detective fiction was a serialized story published by the Daily Express in 1927. Titled The White Cottage Mystery , it contained atypical themes for a woman writer of the era. Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley . This introduced Albert Campion, albeit originally as a minor character. He returned in Mystery Mile , thanks in part to pressure from her American publishers, much taken with the character. Campion proved so successful that Allingham made him the centrepiece of another 17 novels and over 20 short stories, continuing into the 1960s.
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Albert Campion Mysteries |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane |
ISBN-10 | 1-911295-12-8 / 1911295128 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-911295-12-9 / 9781911295129 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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