Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham (1904–1966) was an English writer best known for her detective fiction featuring Albert Campion. Born in London, she began publishing in the 1920s and gained wide recognition with *The Crime at Black Dudley* (1929), which introduced Campion. Over the following decades she wrote a long-running series of Campion novels and short stories, combining intricate plotting with wit and social observation. Allingham is commonly associated with the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and was a contemporary of writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. She also wrote other novels and contributed journalism during her career.