Margery allingham biography of michael

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    • Margery Allingham

    English editor and novelist (1904–1966)

    Margery Allingham

    BornMargery Louise Allingham
    (1904-05-20)20 May 1904
    Ealing, London, UK
    Died30 June 1966(1966-06-30) (aged 62)
    Colchester, Essex, England
    Pen nameMargery Allingham
    Maxwell March
    OccupationNovelist
    Period1923–1966
    GenreMystery, crime fiction
    SpousePhilip Youngman Carter
    ParentsHerbert Allingham and Emmie 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.

    Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Initially believed to be a parody of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Campion matured into a strongly individual character, part-detective, part-adventurer, who formed the basis for 18 novels and many sho