The Beckoning Lady

The Beckoning Lady

infobox Book |
name = The Beckoning Lady


image_caption = 2007 Vintage pb edition
author = Margery Allingham
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Albert Campion
genre = Crime novel
publisher = Chatto & Windus
release_date = 1955
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages =
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Tiger in the Smoke
followed_by = Hide My Eyes

"The Beckoning Lady" is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1955, in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York under the title "The Estate of the Beckoning Lady".

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: Chatto & Windus, 1955)
* Margery Allingham, "The Beckoning Lady", (Vintage, Random House, 2007)

External links

* [http://www.margeryallingham.org.uk/bibliography.htm An Allingham bibliography] , with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society
* [http://www.idir.net/~nedblake/allingham_03v_tbl.html A page about the book] from the Margery Allingham Archive


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