''The Beckoning Lady'' is a

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Margery Allingham Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. Alli ...

, first published in

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in the United Kingdom by

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; and in the United States by Doubleday,

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under the title ''The Estate of the Beckoning Lady''. It is the 15th novel in the

Albert Campion Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in ''The Crime at Black Dudley'' (1929), an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, ...

series.

Plot introduction

Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.

References

* Margery Allingham, ''The Beckoning Lady'', (London:

, 1955) * Margery Allingham, ''The Beckoning Lady'', (Vintage,

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, 2007)

External links

An Allingham bibliography
with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society

from the Margery Allingham Archiv

A 2011 podcast about The Beckoning Lady
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