Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
A custom-made killer shocks the fashionable London set in "one of the finest murder books ever written" featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (The New Yorker).

Albert Campion's sister is a success in her own right. A top fashion designer, she works for a legendary couturier and dresses Georgia Wells, the best-dressed actress in the world. Albert also has a connection to Georgia, but his is based on failure, not success. Georgia's former fiancé disappeared nearly three years ago, and Campion has never been able to find him. Until now...

The victim's remains -- discovered by Campion in a deserted country house -- point to suicide. But the man's father assumes it was foul play. In a rarified world of wealth and privilege where silence and secrets can be bought, the investigation won't be easy, especially when another death takes center stage. This time, the victim is Georgia's current husband -- and starring in the role of prime suspect: Albert's sister.

"Top ranking whodunit in Dorothy Sayers tradition... Plus sale for non-mysteryites as first rate novel of fashionable London. Suspense -- humor -- well planned, well written." -- Kirkus Reviews

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. Early Bird Books / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504092388 (January, 2024), 346 p., $26.99.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
A custom-made killer shocks the fashionable London set in "one of the finest murder books ever written" featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (The New Yorker).

Albert Campion's sister is a success in her own right. A top fashion designer, she works for a legendary couturier and dresses Georgia Wells, the best-dressed actress in the world. Albert also has a connection to Georgia, but his is based on failure, not success. Georgia's former fiancé disappeared nearly three years ago, and Campion has never been able to find him. Until now...

The victim's remains -- discovered by Campion in a deserted country house -- point to suicide. But the man's father assumes it was foul play. In a rarified world of wealth and privilege where silence and secrets can be bought, the investigation won't be easy, especially when another death takes center stage. This time, the victim is Georgia's current husband -- and starring in the role of prime suspect: Albert's sister.

"Top ranking whodunit in Dorothy Sayers tradition... Plus sale for non-mysteryites as first rate novel of fashionable London. Suspense -- humor -- well planned, well written." -- Kirkus Reviews

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. Early Bird Books / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504088367 (June, 2023), eBook, 3 MB (ca. 346 p.), $15.99.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (UK 2016)

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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?

First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacket. Then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body, private detective Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth...

Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia's best friend just happens to be Valentine, a top couturière and Campion's sister. In order to protect Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail and ruthless murder.

As urbane as Lord Wimsey... as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. Vintage, ISBN: 9780099492795 (February, 2015), 287 p., £8.99.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (USA 2009)

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It's always a treat to learn something -- something that's actually true -- about Albert Campion, and this novels offers a particularly delicious bonbon in the form of an introduction to Campion's sister, a talented young clothing designer with a roster of celebrated clients. The most celebrated among them is certainly Georgia Wells, a glamorous actress who exemplifies the 1930s femme fatale.

Georgia is vain, stupid, and self-centered, but men fly to her like moths to a flame. And like those moths, they often meet unhappy ends. Georgia's fans chalk it up to her irresistibly dangerous allure, but Campion isn't so sure. For one thing, he reckons, Georgia isn't actually all that alluring. And for another, he suspects she might be just a bit more deliberately fatale than her public would like to believe.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. The 10th Albert Campion Mystery. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 9781934609279 (January, 2009), 304 p., $14.95.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacket. Then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body, Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth...

Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia's best friend just happens to be Valentine, a top couturière and Campion's sister. In order to protect Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail and ruthless murder.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. Vintage, ISBN: 0099492792 (March, 2006), 287 p., £6.99.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
First, there is a skeleton in a dinner-jacket. Then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body, Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth...

Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia's dearest female friend about whom she is only too happy to spread discreditable stories just happens to be Valentine, a top couturière and Campion's sister.

To protect Valentine, Campion will go to almost any lengths even to getting himself engaged to a girl who, luckily, is the perfect gentleman. But this is hardly enough to thwart the hand of an all too human Providence among whose exquisite designs are blackmail and ruthless murder.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. Penguin Classic Crime, ISBN: 0140166092 (February, 1996), 288 p., £6.99.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (USA 1995)

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Among the beautiful people, George Well's suicide was last year's gossip. But Albert Campion stubbornly refused to close his personal books on the affair. Campion barely scratches the surface before finding himself vest-deep in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

A maze of adultery, blackmail and espionage leads to a bizarre series of murders, all done in the world of the wealthy with the best of taste, for the worst of reasons: blood money.

"What more could a mystery reader possibly ask for?" -- The Times [London]

MARGERY ALLINGHAM was the author of thirty-three mystery novels including the Albert Campion series.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. An Albert Campion Mystery. Carroll & Graf, ISBN: 0786702249 (April, 1995), 277 p., £5.99 (?).

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (UK 1965)

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Georgia Wells was an exceedingly lucky woman and a very good actress. Her marriages and her affairs were always so well arranged. They began with such a flourish; they ended most conveniently. There was never any scandal. Yet it did seem strange to Albert Campion that the conditions under which her menfolk were whisked from the scene appeared at times to be strangely similar. Albert had never met Georgia Wells - although he had heard about her of course, for who had not? until she started to become interested and then enamoured of Alan Dell who up till then had been very much in love with Albert's sister. It was then that for very obvious reasons he became really interested in Georgia. A meeting was not too difficult to arrange it occurred quite casually, in fact, but what came to fascinate him was not so much the woman herself but the bewildering sequence of circumstances that seemed to happen with such glaringly suspicious repetition and in which she was always involved. This was no ordinary case, it was a positive maze of peculiar facts and figures which had one very simple explanation, and it was the explanation that took such a time to find out about.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. Re-Issue of her Famous Novel. London: Heinemann, 1965, 315 p., 21s.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (UK 1961)

From the Publisher:
GEORGIA WELLS was an exceedingly lucky woman and a very good actress. Her marriages and her affairs were always so well arranged. They began with such a flourish; they ended most conveniently. There was never any scandal. Yet it did seem strange to Albert Campion that the conditions under which her menfolk were whisked from the scene appeared at times to be strangely similar. Albert had never met Georgia Wells although he had heard about her of course, for who had not? - until she started to become interested and then enamoured of Alan Dell who up till then had been very much in love with Albert's sister. It was then that for very obvious reasons he became really interested in Georgia. A meeting was not too difficult to arrange-it occurred quite casually, in fact, but what came to fascinate him was not so much the woman herself but the bewildering sequence of circumstances that seemed to happen with such glaringly suspicious repetition and in which she was always involved. This was no ordinary case, it was a positive maze of peculiar facts and figures which had one very simple explanation, and it was the explana-tion that took such a time to find out about.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961 (?), Penguin Books No. 771, 315 p., 2'6.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (UK 1954)

From the Publisher:
GEORGIA WELLS was an exceedingly lucky woman and a very good actress. Her marriages and her affairs were always so well arranged. They began with such a flourish; they ended most conveniently. There was never any scandal. Yet it did seem strange to Albert Campion that the conditions under which her menfolk were whisked from the scene appeared at times to be strangely similar. Albert had never met Georgia Wells although he had heard about her of course, for who had not? - until she started to become interested and then enamoured of Alan Dell who up till then had been very much in love with Albert's sister. It was then that for very obvious reasons he became really interested in Georgia. A meeting was not too difficult to arrange-it occurred quite casually, in fact, but what came to fascinate him was not so much the woman herself but the bewildering sequence of circumstances that seemed to happen with such glaringly suspicious repetition and in which she was always involved. This was no ordinary case, it was a positive maze of peculiar facts and figures which had one very simple explanation, and it was the explana-tion that took such a time to find out about.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954, Penguin Books No. 771, 315 p., 2/-.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds (USA 1945)

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MODES IN MURDER AND DESIGNS FOR DEATH
Murder and suicide are too crude to be fashionable -- and a skeleton is definitely passé. So when the skeleton of fascinating Georgia Wells' ex-husband was found, it aroused very little interest among her sophisticated friends at "Caesar's Court," the deluxe country club. Only Albert Campion, the shrewd ama-teur detective, realized that the three-year-old mys-tery, whether it involved murder or suicide, was a link in a disastrous chain of events. The death of Georgia's current husband -- at an opportune moment for her -- and the brutal stabbing of the beautiful model who resembled her, were links in the same chain, and, following a clue provided by his cockney valet, Lugg, Albert Campion risked death to solve the triple mystery and end the fatal chain of death.

Margery Allingham: The Fashion in Shrouds. New York: Pocket Books 1945, Pocket Books No. 329, 299 p., ¢??.