The Beckoning Lady is a crime novel

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 by Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

Margery Louise Allingham was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.- Childhood and schooling :...

, first published in 1955

1955 in literature

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, in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 by Chatto & Windus, London

London

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 and in the United States

United States

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  by Doubleday Doran, New York

New York

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 under the title The Estate of the Beckoning Lady. It is the fifteenth novel in the Albert Campion

Albert Campion

Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in The Crime at Black Dudley , an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, and would go on to feature in another 17 novels and over 20...

series.

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.

External links

• An Allingham bibliography, with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society
• A page about the book from the Margery Allingham Archive
• http://www.reallylikethisbook.comA 2011 podcast about The Beckoning Lady