Margery Allingham Books in Order

Originally published for American readers, The Case Book of Mr. Campion collects a run of Albert Campion short stories. Each begins with a playful note from his casebook and drops him into neatly constructed problems involving blackmail, impostors, stage magic and petty crooks out of their depth.

This seasonal collection offers four Christmas pieces, two classic Campion mysteries and two gentler domestic tales. From a postman’s puzzling death on icy roads to stolen jewels at a country house party and a quarrel healed on Christmas Eve, it shows Allingham’s warmer, more wistful side.

This holiday anthology pairs two of Allingham’s Christmas stories with full length festive mysteries by Nicholas Blake and Michael Innes. Country house gatherings, snowbound investigations and bittersweet seasonal twists make it a cosy companion for readers who like their classic crime wrapped in tinsel.

Named for the Campion story "The Danger Point", this collection brings together a handful of Allingham’s shorter mysteries. Country house parties, anxious heiresses and petty crooks all cross Campion’s path, giving a compact taste of her mix of puzzle, sly humour and sharp observation.

Also published as Deadly Duo, this book contains two suspense novellas. In one, an impulsive young woman accepts a dubious invitation and is drawn into murder. In the other, an actress’s last ditch scheme to regain her lost glory and punish an old flame leads to fatal consequences.

Compiled after Allingham’s death, this volume gathers previously uncollected tales about Campion and other characters. The stories range from light comic sketches to more reflective late pieces, filling gaps in Campion’s long career and offering a final sampling of Allingham’s humour and eye for human oddity.

Eighteen Golden Age stories make up this posthumous collection, ranging from classic Campion investigations to eerie village legends and domestic crimes. Whether he is unpicking a seemingly minor mishap or proving that evil really exists, Allingham keeps the tone nimble, witty and quietly unsettling.

This short story collection centres on Albert Campion, whose "lucky day" begins with a trivial errand and turns into a brush with professional thieves. Across the volume he tackles blackmail, domestic deceptions and holiday crimes in brisk cases that highlight his improvised charm and Lugg’s grumbling assistance.

Betty Connolly appears to be just another bright young debutante in 1930s London, but by night she is the Red Rose, a daring jewel thief haunting the financiers who ruined her family. This linked sequence of eight adventures follows her audacious raids and risky quest for revenge.

When an archaeologist dies suddenly and his maverick geologist colleague disappears, Campion suspects their remote quarry in the countryside hides more than fossils. Murder, kidnapping and a potential fortune buried in the rock draw in greedy opportunists, leaving Campion racing to keep his friends out of the crossfire.

A late collection of short fiction, The Allingham Case Book gathers ingenious puzzles and character sketches, many featuring Albert Campion. From anonymous letters and insurance fraud to murders in plain sight, these concise tales showcase Allingham’s gift for atmosphere, twisty motives and offbeat criminals.

At the fusty Inglewood Turrets hotel in north London, a minor Russian diplomat vanishes, leaving only his code name, Farthing, and a whiff of Cold War intrigue. Campion and his adult son Rupert pick through eccentric guests, spies and defectors to find out who is trading secrets and why Farthing had to disappear.

The Essex village of Saltey, long a haunt of smugglers, is seething with bikers, poison pen letters and rumours of a demon in the marshes. Campion sends young American researcher Mortimer Kelsey to stay there, hoping he can unearth the truth about a long ago robbery and the treasure it left behind.

Campion and his wife Amanda take their schoolboy nephew and his clever cousin to visit a remote research island on the east coast. When one boy vanishes and shadowy figures covet a new electronic device, Campion and Detective Luke confront spies, kidnappers and unsettling hints of mind reading technology.

On the eve of an elopement, wealthy Timothy Kinnit learns he was adopted as a wartime baby and that ugly rumours cling to his unknown origins. With his future in doubt, Campion digs into the history of the bomb blasted Turk Street Mile and an old scandal involving a ruthless governess.

An old fashioned bus, a quiet London street and a single left hand glove are the few clues to a string of murders. Following a trail from a sinister private museum to an East End scrapyard, Campion hunts a patient killer whose respectability hides obsessive violence.

Back in the Suffolk village of Pontisbright, Campion hopes for a lazy summer while his friends Minnie and Tonker Cassand prepare an extravagant garden party. When a body turns up on their land and the tax authorities close in, he must untangle overlapping motives in this oddly carefree community.

Young doctor Ann Fowler has rebuilt her life after losing her childhood sweetheart to glamorous film star Francia Forde. When a shaken Francia arrives at Peacocks Hall under mysterious circumstances, Ann is drawn into protecting her from a deranged admirer whose jealousy edges toward violence.

Elizabeth Lane chooses the safety of marriage to a sensible headmaster over a more dangerous passion. Her careful decision collapses when her husband is found dead at the bottom of a well and she becomes the obvious suspect, forced to face both village gossip and the past she tried to escape.

Collecting the novellas "The Patient at Peacocks Hall" and "Safer Than Love", this volume explores women whose sensible choices have deadly consequences. Between a jealous madman and a husband’s body in a well, both heroines must untangle obsession, guilt and fear to clear their names.

In postwar London smothered by fog, rumours whisper that "the Tiger" is loose again. When war widow Meg Elginbrodde receives photographs suggesting her dead husband is alive, Campion’s enquiries collide with escaped killer Jack Havoc, whose hunt for a hidden treasure turns the city into his hunting ground.

This volume pairs two suspense novellas. In "Wanted: Someone Innocent" a young woman takes a companion’s job at a country house and finds herself framed for murder. In "Last Act" an ageing actress’s elaborate revenge on an old enemy spirals into something far more lethal than she intended.

In shabby Apron Street, disappearing criminals are quietly tidied away by the local undertakers, while the eccentric Palinode family lives above a chemist’s shop. Sent in by Lugg, Campion investigates two strange deaths among the Palinodes and a banker prepared to kill to get them out of the way.

Coming home to London after years on secret war work, a weary Campion finds a dead woman dumped in his own flat. Reluctantly drawn in, he uncovers a trail linking her murder to missing art treasures and rare wine, chasing a nimble killer through blackout haunted streets.

This family saga imagines the life of James, son of a Georgian gentleman and a Romany mother, loosely based on Allingham’s own forebears. Born in 1800 with a modest fortune and the command that "no gentleman ever works", James strives through love affairs, business ventures and social climbing to found a lasting dynasty.

Written during the Second World War, this non fiction portrait of an Essex village records how ordinary people prepared for invasion and endured the Blitz. Allingham, serving as billeting officer and first aid organizer, describes evacuees, farmers, air raid drills and quiet courage in the renamed village of Auburn.

Recovering from a head injury in a country hospital, Campion cannot remember his own name, only that he must stop something terrible. Branded a cop killer and on the run through a secretive wartime town, he pieces together a plot involving counterfeit money, treason and his fractured engagement to Amanda.

At the Ivory family’s London art gallery, valuable objects are smashed, a catalogue is burned and a painting is slashed. Young Frances Ivory suspects her charming but bullying brother in law, yet when he is found murdered the danger only deepens, forcing her and her formidable grandmother to face treachery within the family.

This collection gathers Campion at shorter length, from country house pranks and jewel thefts to smuggling rings and awkward debutantes. Each story drops the gentleman sleuth into a fresh tangle of vanity and crime, offering quick, character driven puzzles that fill in corners of his long career.

When a long missing man’s skeleton is found, Campion’s investigation leads to glamorous actress Georgia Wells and to his sister Val, a fashion designer supplying Georgia’s stage wardrobe. As lovers, rivals and old scandals swirl around a golden aeroplane, a string of convenient deaths begins to look planned.

Campion narrates this case himself, beginning with the obituary of R. I. "Pig" Peters, a brutal school bully he buried months before. When Pig’s body turns up freshly murdered in a village, Campion faces a bizarre tangle of funerals, missing corpses and lingering grudges.

Popular song and dance star Jimmy Sutane is plagued by cruel practical jokes as his new show opens. Called in by a mutual friend, Campion enters a theatrical household where old scandals, jealous understudies and a fatal "accident" blur together, and his growing feelings for Sutane’s wife cloud his judgment.

Out of work and desperate, Mary Coleridge borrows a friend’s identity to spend a few weeks at a rich aunt’s country house. The indulgent welcome soon feels like a trap as Mrs de Liane’s true plans emerge, leaving Mary effectively a prisoner in a house steeped in malice.

The venerable Barnabas publishing firm is rocked when director Paul Brande vanishes and then turns up dead, locked in the company strongroom. With another relative once having disappeared in broad daylight, Campion wades into family tensions and financial pressure to uncover what the Barnabas cousins are hiding.

Inspector David Blest refuses to accept that a club member’s "suicide" is straightforward. On leave, he trails his suspect to the seaside resort of Westbourne on Sea and finds a supposedly sick young woman, Judy Wellington, whose secret inheritance makes her a target for crooks and would be husbands.

Eighteen years after flamboyant painter John Lafcadio’s death, his widow still unveils a newly discovered canvas each year. During one unveiling the lights fail and a man is stabbed in the dark. Campion, present as a guest, must probe jealousies and secrets in the bohemian art circle.

Special investigator Robin Grey handles delicate cases that official departments would rather ignore. After he stops a man being pushed under a train, Grey is drawn to unlucky heiress Jennifer Fern, whose previous fiancés have died in "accidents". Going undercover, he must discover who wants her dead before history repeats itself.

A tiny Adriatic principality, Averna, suddenly becomes strategically vital, and rival claimants scramble for the rights. Campion travels to the village of Pontisbright to help the impoverished Fitton family prove their title, racing a ruthless financier and meeting ingenious teenager Amanda Fitton along the way.

When a disagreeable uncle disappears from a repressive Cambridge household, Campion is asked to help the anxious niece. Soon bodies mount within the eccentric Faraday clan, and Campion must work with Scotland Yard to navigate poisonous family loyalties before anyone else dies.

Campion plucks young Val Gyrth off the London streets and escorts him home to protect an ancient family treasure, the Gyrth Chalice. In the Suffolk countryside, attempted theft, murder and local superstition collide, forcing Campion to outwit a ruthless gang after the heirloom.

American judge Crowdy Lobbett is marked for death by the shadowy Simister gang, even after he flees to England. Albert Campion spirits the family to isolated Mystery Mile on the Suffolk coast, where vanishing relatives, a sinister maze and village secrets lead to a final confrontation.

At a country house weekend in the grim old mansion of Black Dudley, a harmless ritual with an ancient dagger turns deadly when the host is killed and gangsters seize control. Among the trapped guests, the seemingly foolish Albert Campion proves surprisingly resourceful.

A loathed charmer is found shot outside a peaceful English cottage, and nearly everyone in the household had a reason to hate him. Detective W. T. Challoner sifts through jealousies, family secrets and tangled alibis in this early whodunit about how far resentment will go.

Set on seventeenth century Mersea Island, Allingham’s debut follows Dick, a mysterious sailor with a black kerchief at his throat. Drawn into smuggling, local feuds and eerie happenings on the marshes, he becomes the centre of a blend of sea story, ghost tale and troubled romance.