Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (USA 2025)

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In The Crime at Black Dudley, Margery Allingham introduces readers to the eccentric and brilliant Albert Campion in a mystery brimming with suspense, intrigue, and sinister charm.

When a lively weekend party at a secluded English country house turns deadly, a group of guests suddenly find themselves prisoners in a chilling game of deception. As tensions rise and secrets unravel, the enigmatic Campion-at first seemingly a foolish guest-emerges as the only one with a chance of solving the murder and unmasking the true villain.

Rich with gothic atmosphere, razor-sharp wit, and a plot that twists until the very end, The Crime at Black Dudley is a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie and classic detective fiction.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. Positronic Publ., ISBN: 9781515464716 (July, 2025), 184 p., Hardcover $24.99, Paperback $16.00.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (USA 2025)

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The first novel in Margery Allingham's renowned series introducing the legendary aristocratic sleuth Albert Campion. Pathologist George Abbershaw is on holiday in Suffolk attending a social weekend at the remote Black Dudley manor. His friend Wyatt Petrie has organized a party to provide some diversion for his elderly uncle. With charming young Meggie Oliphant in attendance, George hopes to win her affections. But the lighthearted gathering soon takes a dark turn as the guests are caught in a deadly game. The group soon discovers that the house is under the control of hardened criminals, and there is a killer among them. Now trapped, George must find a way to thwart their plans while getting himself and Meggie out alive. Luckily, one of the guests is Albert Campion -- a notorious party crasher with a surprisingly good knack for solving mysteries.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. The Albert Campin Mysteries. Early Bird Books / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504097765 (January, 2025), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 204 p.), $6.99.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (USA 2018)

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George Abbershaw is set for a social weekend at Black Dudley manor, hosted by Wyatt Petrie and his elderly uncle Colonel Combe, who enjoys the company of Bright Young Things. With Meggie Oliphant in attendance, George looks forward to the chance of getting closer to the girl he's set his heart on. But when murder spoils the party, the group soon find out that not only is there a killer in their midst, but the house is also under the control of notorious criminals. Trapped and at their mercy, George must find a way to thwart their diabolical plans while getting himself and Meggie out alive.

Luckily for Abbershaw, among the guests is Albert Campion -- a garrulous and affable party-crasher with a great knack for solving mysteries and interrogating suspects.

The Crime at Black Dudley, first published in 1929, is the first novel to introduce Margery Allingham's amiable and much loved sleuth -- Albert Campion.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. Bloomsbury Reader, ISBN: 9781448216666 (January, 2018), 241 p., $16.00.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (UK 2015)

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THE FIRST CAMPION MYSTERY
'Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light' Agatha Christie
A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and a groupof London's brightest young things accepted an invitation to the mansion of Black Dudley.

Skulduggery is most certainly afoot, and the party-goers soon realise that they're trapped in the secluded house.

Amongst them is a stranger who promises to unravel the villainous plots behind their incarceration - but can George and his friends trust the peculiar young man who calls himself Albert Campion?

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. Vintage Books, ISBN: 9780099593492 (May, 2015), 229 p., £8.99.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (USA 2006)

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A house-party with a glittering guest-list. An imposing country estate with endless shadowy staircases and unused rooms. The breathless period between the two world wars. It's the ideal setting for the classic English murder mystery, and bringing it to perfection is the introduction -- in a supporting role, for the first and last time -- of Albert Campion, the consummate (if compulsively quipping) Gentleman Sleuth. The guests take some time to be grateful for Campion's presence; he is a bit peculiar, and they have more than enough distractions, what with various complicated love affairs, a curious ritual involving a jeweled dagger, and a deadly game of hide-and-seek.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 193339742X (June, 2006), 256 p., $14.95.

Margery Allingham: The Black Dudley Murder (USA 2000)

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Murder turns a weekend house party at Black Dudley Manor into a nasty affair when the host turns up dead. Nor do gruesome rituals, brutal interrogations, and perilous traps add to the fun. Such breaches of etiquette could prove fatal for everyone, if super-sleuth Albert Campion were not there to sift through motives, sort out clues and with brilliant deduction along with his signature charm solve this crime of dark and deadly hospitality.

Margery Allingham: The Black Dudley Murder. Carroll & Graf, 1976, ISBN: 0786707542 (March, 2000), 214 p., $5.95.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (UK 1990)

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A crime novel set in a remote country house, when a harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over the hero's intention of proposing marriage.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. An Albert Campion Mystery. Penguin Classic Crime, ISBN: 0140093818 (March, 1990), 208 p., £4.99.

Margery Allingham: The Black Dudley Murder (USA 1988)

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DARK DOINGS AT BLACK DUDLEY
You are cordially invited to a weekend house party at Black Dudley Manor: While there, you will participate in a gruesome ritual, your host will be brutally murdered, you will be held hostage, and someone wil interrogate you in a most unpleasant manner. But never fear! Albert Campion is a fellow guest - and you just might survive to tell the tale.

MYSTERY AT ITS BRITISH BEST
Equally at home in the underworld and among the upper crust, super-sleuth Albert Campion rarely misses a clue or fails to find a motive. Behind his horn-rimmed glasses and mild-mannered facade is a brilliant mind that can penetrate to the villainous heart of the most heinous crime.

"Miss Allingham is very, very good and those who are not familiar with her have a discovery awaiting them" Los Angeles Times

Margery Allingham: The Black Dudley Murder. An Albert Campion Mystery. Avon Books, 1976, ISBN: 0380705753 (October, 1988), 214 p., $3.50.

Margery Allingham: The Black Dudley Murder (USA 1976)

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THE LEGEND OF THE DAGGER
The Black Dudley dagger was shrouded in an age-old mystery. The legend said its blade would drip blood if touched by a murderer's hand.

It was an intriguing myth that the guests in the old country house decided to ex-plore. The lights were turned out, and the dagger passed from hand to hand, until someone noticed it was covered with blood -- and one of the guests lay dying.

No one had seen or heard anything unusual -- except Albert Campion. And only he knew they were up against the most diabolic criminal mind of the century.

Margery Allingham's mysteries are "consistently suspenseful, consistently terrifying, consistently superb!" New York Times

Margery Allingham: The Black Dudley Murder. New York: Manor Books, 1976, MB 12386, 176 p., $1.25.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (UK 1973)

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Overnight a light-hearted weekend freezes into a deadly game of hide-and-seek... with nine young people subjected to the Ritual of the Dagger and trapped in a remote Suffolk house, a corpse to account for, and Albert Campion at grips with a master criminal.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. An Albert Campion Mystery. Harmondsworth/Middlesex und New York: Penguin, 1973, Penguin Classic Crime, 1973, ISBN: 0140007709, 208 p., 30p.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (UK 1967)

From the Publisher:
Overnight a light-hearted weekend freezes into a deadly game of hide-and-seek... with nine young people subjected to the Ritual of the Dagger and trapped in a remote Suffolk house, a corpse to account for, and Albert Campion at grips with a master criminal.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. Harmondsworth/Middlesex: Penguin, 1967, Penguin Books 770, 208 p., 3'6.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (UK 1961)

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Ritual murder among the bright-young-things
If George Abbershaw had dreamed that his weekend visit to Black Dudley, the mysterious house on the remo Suffolk coast, would develop into such an extraordinary series of adventures, that precise scientist would certainly never have gone there.

As it was, however, he and a whole company of light-hear young people were pitchforked into the amazing affair.

The sinister dagger ritual, murder, the peculiar professic of Mr Albert Campion, and the man who believed in force - all these were encountered inside the cold walls of the house.

Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley. Harmondsworth/Middlesex: Penguin, 1961, Penguin Books 770, 208 p., 2'6.