Bibliography of Margery Allingham (1904-1966)
This list includes all Margery Allingham's published fiction (though The Oaken Heart, strictly, is fact and so is Francis Smith). In addition, she published many reviews of others' books in Time and Tide, The Daily Graphic, and The Tatler; many film stories in her Aunt Maud's magazines; sketches and light verse in Joy and Girl's Cinema; and essays and actual pieces in various magazines.
Vintage are reprinting all of Margery Allingham's books in the UK as are Felony & Mayhem Mysteries in the US. These are available from local bookstores or via the internet from Amazon UK and Amazon US. Second-hand copies of out of print books can often be obtained via internet dealers such as Addall, AbeBooks and Oxfam Books.
Publications
- Blackkerchief Dick
- Hodder & Stoughton 1923
- Doubleday 1923
- Water in a Sieve
- Samuel French 1925
- The
White Cottage Mystery
- Jarrolds 1928
- The
Crime at Black Dudley
- Jarrolds 1929
- Doubleday 1929 (as The Black Dudley Murder)
- Mystery Mile
- Jarrolds 1930
- Doubleday 1930
- Look to the Lady
- Jarrolds 1931
- Doubleday 1931 (as The Gyrth Chalice Mystery)
- Police at the Funeral
- Jarrolds 1931
- Doubleday 1932
- Sweet Danger
- Jarrolds 1933
- Doubleday 1933 (as Kingdom of Death)
- The Mystery Man of Soho
- Amalgamated Press 1933
- Other Man's Danger (by Maxwell March)
- Collins 1933
- Doubleday 1933 (as The Man of Dangerous Secrets)
- Death of a Ghost
- Heinemann 1934
- Doubleday 1934
- Rogues' Holiday (as by Maxwell March)
- Collins 1935
- Doubleday 1935
- Flowers for the Judge
- Heinemann 1936
- Doubleday 1936
- The Shadow in the House (as by Maxwell March)
- Collins 1936
- Doubleday 1936
- Mr Campion: Criminologist
- Doubleday 1937
- The Case of the Late Pig
- Hodder & Stoughton 1937
- Dancers In Mourning
- Heinemann 1937
- Doubleday 1937
- The Fashion in Shrouds
- Heinemann 1938
- Doubleday 1938
- Sleuth's Corner: Who Killed Robin Cox?
- Sunday Times 1938
- Mr Campion and Others
- Heinemann 1939
- Penguin 1950 (Revised Edition)
- Black Plumes
- Heinemann 1940
- Doubleday 1940
- Traitor's Purse
- Heinemann 1941
- Doubleday 1941
- The Oaken Heart
- Michael Joseph 1941
- Dance of the Years
- Michael Joseph 1943
- Little, Brown 1943 (as The Galantrys, by Margery Allingham Carter)
- Coroner's Pidgin
- Heinemann 1941
- Doubleday 1941 (as Pearls Before Swine)
- Wanted: Someone Innocent
- Stamford House 1946
- The Case Book of Mr Campion
- Spivak 1947
- More Work for the Undertaker
- Heinemann 1948
- Doubleday 1949
- Deadly Duo
- Doubleday 1949
- World's Work 1950 (as Take Two at Bedtime)
- The Tiger in the Smoke
- Chatto & Windus 1952
- Doubleday 1952
- No Love Lost
- World's Work 1954
- Doubleday 1954
- The Beckoning Lady
- Chatto & Windus 1955
- Doubleday 1955 (as The Estate of the Beckoning Lady)
- Hide My Eyes
- Chatto & Windus 1958
- Doubleday 1958 (as Tether's End)
- The China Governess
- Doubleday 1962
- Chatto & Windus 1963
- The Mysterious Mr Campion
- Chatto & Windus 1963
- The Mind Readers
- Morrow 1965
- Chatto & Windus 1965
- Mr Campion's Lady
- Chatto & Windus 1965
- Mr Campion's Clowns, with a memoir by Youngman Carter
- Chatto & Windus 1967
- Cargo of Eagles, completed by Youngman Carter
- Chatto & Windus 1968
- Morrow 1968
- The Allingham Casebook
- Chatto & Windus 1969
- Morrow 1969
- The Allingham Minibus
- Chatto & Windus 1973
- Morrow 1973
- The Return of Mr Campion
- Hodder & Stoughton 1989
- St Martin's 1990
- The Darings of the Red Rose
- Crippen and Landru 1995
- Room to Let
- Crippen and Landru 1999
- Pyewacket Press 1999
Uncollected Stories
- Jubilee for Two!
- in Answers, 11 May 1935
- A Proper Mystery
- in Lights of Essex 18 May 1942
- The Day of the Demon
- in The Compleat Imbiber no.1, 1953
- also in The Bottle Street Gazette (the journal of The Margery Allingham Society) Spring 2003
- A Word in Season
- in The Tatler, 11 November 1955 (original version without Albert Campion)
- also in The Bottle Street Gazette October 1997
Juvenile
- The Rescue of the Rain Clouds
- in Mother & Home, 14 April 1917
- also in The Bottle Street Gazette Summer 2004
- The School (by K. Norfolk)
- in The Bottle Street Gazette Summer 2004
- The Coming of Miss Gregory (by M. Allingham)
- in The Bottle Street Gazette Summer 2004
- The Pearl of the Sea (by D. Norfolk)
- in The Bottle Street Gazette Summer 2004
True Crime
- The Public Spirit of Francis Smith
- in The Saturday Book, 1944
- also in The Bottle Street Gazette, Spring 2000
Books about Margery Allingham
- Richard Martin:
- Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham
- (UMI Research Press, 1988)
- B.A. Pike:
- Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of Margery Allingham
- (Bowling Green University Press, 1987)
- Julia Thorogood:
- Margery Allingham: A Biography
- (Heinemann, 1991)
- Marianne van Hoeven (ed)
- Margery Allingham, 100 Years of a Great Mystery Writer
- (Lucas, 2003)
TV and Film Adaptations
- Room to Let
- 1949 film adaptation of Allingham's radio play about Jack the Ripper.
- The Tiger in the Smoke
- 1956 film starring Tony Wright as Jack Havoc. The supporting cast included Donald Sinden, Kenneth Griffith and Gerald Harper. Oddly, Campion was written out of the script.
- Dancers in Mourning
- 1959 BBC adaptation starring Bernard Horsfall as Campion.
- In 1958 there was a proposal to film Hide My Eyes with Cliff Richard as Campion, but this was never made.
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Two series of adaptations starring Peter Davison as Campion and Brian Glover as Lugg was broadcast by the BBC during 1988-90. All episodes are available on DVD from Acorn Media (UK) and Acorn Media (US).
Campion DVD- First Series, 1988-89:
- Police at the Funeral
- Look to the Lady
- The Case of the Late Pig
- Death of a Ghost
- Second Series, 1989-90:
- Sweet Danger
- Dancers in Mourning
- Flowers for the Judge
- Mystery Mile
- First Series, 1988-89: