Margery Allingham

The Tiger in the Smoke

Mitarbeit:Paretsky, Sara

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A dark, taut psychological thriller by queen of crime, Margery Allingham, featuring an introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of detective fiction, Sara Paretsky.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

Set in the atmospheric midst of a London 'pea souper', The Tiger in the Smoke is Margery Allingham's most sophisticated Golden Age crime novel, in which the darkness of the down-at-heel city fades against a piercing portrait of pure evil.
An impenetrable fog has descended on the streets of post-war London and, lurking in the shadows, a violent murderer is on the rampage. Gentleman detective, Albert Campion, is on the trail of a mysterious man posing as the dead husband of a war widow with a wealthy new fiancé, but his expedition into the city's criminal underworld reveals something far more sinister than blackmail . . .

Produktdetails

• Macmillan Collector's Library 93
• Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library / Macmillan Publishers International
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 72395
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 101mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781509826780
• ISBN-10: 1509826785
• Artikelnr.: 45641805

Autorenporträt

Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. The child of two writers, she grew up in the village of Layer Breton near Colchester and spent much of her childhood writing stories and plays. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923 when she was only nineteen. Her breakthrough came in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley, which introduced Albert Campion, the gentleman sleuth who went on to become her most famous character and featured in eighteen further novels and numerous short stories, including Sweet Danger and The Tiger in the Smoke, establishing her as one of the four queens of the Golden Age of crime. Allingham died in 1966 and her husband, Philip Youngman Carter, completed her final Campion novel, The Cargo of Eagles.