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Margery Allingham

(1904-1966), Crime writer and novelist

Margery Louise Allingham

Sitter in 48 portraits
One of the most significant writers of detective fiction of the twentieth century, Allingham was encouraged by her father, an editor of boys' adventure stories and detective tales. Allingham wished to turn the detective story into a serious genre, stating that she made 'no distinction between the novel and the thriller'. Her husband, Philip Youngman Carter, illustrated the dust jackets for many of her novels, which included More Work for the Undertaker (1949) and The Beckoning Lady (1955), and often featured her detective hero, Albert Campion, who she first wrote about in 1929 in her novel The Crime at Black Dudley .

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Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x10310

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1936
NPG x10310

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x10311

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1936
NPG x10311

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2440

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x2440

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2441

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x2441

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2442

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x2442

Margery Allingham, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x27023

Margery Allingham

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 23 June 1939
NPG x27023

Margery Allingham, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x27024

Margery Allingham

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 23 June 1939
NPG x27024

Margery Allingham, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x27025

Margery Allingham

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 23 June 1939
NPG x27025

Margery Allingham, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x27026

Margery Allingham

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 23 June 1939
NPG x27026

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2434

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2434

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2435

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2435

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2436

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2436

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2437

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2437

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2438

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2438

Margery Allingham, by Howard Coster - NPG x2439

Margery Allingham

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2439

Margery Allingham, by Francis Goodman - NPG Ax39594

Margery Allingham

by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, circa 1945
NPG Ax39594

Margery Allingham, by Francis Goodman - NPG x68926

Margery Allingham

by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1946
NPG x68926

Margery Allingham, by Francis Goodman - NPG x68927

Margery Allingham

by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1946
NPG x68927

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