Mystery Mile: Albert Campion

by Margery Allingham

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Reader

, 2014

Overview

Classic Crime from the Golden Age, the second in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling’s favourite Golden Age author.

Albert Campion is sailing home when he saves the life of fellow passenger, Judge Crowdy Lobbett. Hunted by the notoriously deadly Simister gang, it seems as though the judge’s troubles have followed him from America.

Determined to catch the infamous gang leader, Albert bundles the judge, along with his son Marlowe and beautiful daughter Isopel, to the manor at Mystery Mile, where he hopes to lure the villain out into the open. But the safe haven of Mystery Mile is soon invaded by danger, and when people start disappearing, the race to uncover the enigma of their enemy’s true identity becomes ever more urgent.

Mystery Mile, first published in 1930, is the second Margery Allingham novel starring eccentric and well-loved amateur sleuth, Albert Campion.

Key Features

The second novel in Allingham’s Albert Campion Classic Crime series. Albert Campion is Allingham’s equivalent of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot.
Classic Golden Age Crime set in Downton Abbey era Britain.
Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling’s favourite Golden Age author.

Praise for Mystery Mile

To Albert Campion has fallen the honour of being the first detective to feature in a story which is also by any standard a distinguished novel

Margery Allingham is notable for the energy and inventiveness of her writing

Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light

Product Details

• Title: Mystery Mile
• Author: Margery Allingham
• Series: Albert Campion
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781448214228, 144821422X
• Resource ID: LLS:9781448214228
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:00:34Z

About Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London in 1904 to a family immersed in literature. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923 when she was 19. Her first work of detective fiction was a serialized story published by the Daily Express in 1927. Entitled The White Cottage Mystery, it contained atypical themes for a woman writer of the era. Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley. This introduced Albert Campion, albeit originally as a minor character. He returned in Mystery Mile, thanks in part to pressure from her American publishers, much taken with the character. Campion proved so successful that Allingham made him the centerpiece of another 17 novels and over 20 short stories, continuing into the 1960s.