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The China Governess
Margery Allingham
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Description for The China Governess
Paperback. Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private detective Albert Campion. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private detective Albert Campion. 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. In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own - involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess - that must also be brought to light by Campion's investigations.
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099506119
SKU
V9780099506119
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About Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. She sold her first story at age 8 and published her first novel before turning 20. She married the artist, journalist and editor Philip Youngman Carter in 1927. In 1928 Allingham published her first detective story, The White Cottage Mystery, and the following year, in The Crime at Black Dudley, she introduced ... Read more
Reviews for The China Governess
Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world
Tatler
One of the finest 'golden age' crime novelists
Sunday Telegraph
Faultless
The Times
Allingham captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection... For those who relish classic crime fiction
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Tatler
One of the finest 'golden age' crime novelists
Sunday Telegraph
Faultless
The Times
Allingham captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection... For those who relish classic crime fiction
Daily ... Read more