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Margery Allingham Waits For The Invasion

For Albert Campion's creator, WW2 was her salvation.

For Albert Campion's creator, WW2 was her salvation.

This is the third episode of Queens of Crime at War, a six part Shedunnit series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War.

Books mentioned:
— Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
— Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
— The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham
— Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham
— Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham
— The Oaken Heart by Margery Allingham
— The Adventures of Margery Allingham by Julia Jones (aka Julia Thorogood)
— Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham by Richard Martin
— Mr Campion's Career by B. A. Pike

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Shedunnit is written and narrated by Caroline Crampton and edited by Euan MacAleece.

Release date:

5 months left to listen

23 minutes