{"product_id":"the-beckoning-lady-9781504091787","title":"The Beckoning Lady","description":"\u003cb\u003eMurder darkens the bright days of summer in an idyllic Suffolk village, in an Albert Campion mystery that is simply \"unforgettable\" (A.S. Byatt).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrivate detective Albert 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 motives, suspicion and deception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanger is hardly unknown in this idyllic rural village, but it is a less romantic peril than Campion faced on his first visit, more than twenty years ago . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"My very favourite of the four Queens of Crime is Allingham.\" --J. K. Rowling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.\" --Sara Paretsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargery Allingham, born in 1904 to Emily and Herbert Allingham, was an esteemed English novelist, author, and editor of \u003ci\u003eChristian Globe\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew London Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Considered one of the four \"Queens of Crime\" from the golden age of detective fiction, Allingham began writing stories and plays at a young age and published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eBlackkerchief Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, at 19. She later studied drama and speech training at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Allingham is best known for her character Albert Campion, a sleuth first introduced in \u003ci\u003eThe Crime of Black Dudley\u003c\/i\u003e. Campion was featured in seventeen subsequent novels, and even more short stories. Allingham continued to write until her death on June 30, 1966.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media Mystery \u0026 Thri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526532632850,"sku":"9781504091787","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42c806f6-a6c0-48d0-9b6c-5c3a26da0ac3.jpg?v=1731278281","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-beckoning-lady-9781504091787","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}