Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham
BornMargery Louise Allingham
(1904-05-20)20 May 1904
Ealing, London, UK
Died30 June 1966(1966-06-30) (aged 62)
Colchester, Essex, England
Pen nameMargery Allingham
Maxwell March
OccupationNovelist
Period1923–1966
GenreMystery, crime fiction
SpousePhilip Youngman Carter
ParentsHerbert Allingham and Emmie Allingham

Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.

Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Initially believed to be a parody of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Campion matured into a strongly individual character, part-detective, part-adventurer, who formed the basis for 18 novels and many short stories.