Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this "vivid and witty" British mystery (The New York Times).

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm -- cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise -- and all rumors hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier. Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion -- but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever?

"My very favourite of the four Queens of Crime is Allingham." -- J. K. Rowling
"Ms. Allingham has a strong, controlled sense of humour and is never dull." -- Times Literary Supplement

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. Early Bird Books / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504091770 (November, 2023), 286 p., $23.99.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this "vivid and witty" British mystery (The New York Times).

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm -- cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise -- and all rumors hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier. Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion -- but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever?

"My very favourite of the four Queens of Crime is Allingham." -- J. K. Rowling
"Ms. Allingham has a strong, controlled sense of humour and is never dull." -- Times Literary Supplement

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504087261 (April, 2023), eBook 3 MB (ca. 286 p.), $9.99.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
'MARGERY ALLINGHAM STANDS OUT LIKE A SHINING LIGHT' -- AGATHA CHRISTIE
Scandal, secrets and suspicions abound when one of the directors at the prestigious publishing house of Bamabas is found dead, locked in the company's strongroom.

All eyes are on the other partners at the firm - cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise - and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier.

Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion - but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever?

'ALLINGHAM CAPTURES HER QUINTESSENTIAL, QUIET DETECTIVE ALBERT CAMPION TO PERFECTION... FOR THOSE WHO RELISH CLASSIC CRIME FICTION' -- DAILY EXPRESS

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. A Campion Mystery. Vintage, ISBN: 9780099492825 (March, 2015), 256 p., £8.99.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
The Barnabas publishing dynasty is no stranger to mystery; after all, the founder's nephew is legendary for having disappeared in broad daylight. Yet the discovery of one of the Barnabas cousins, dead for some days inside a locked basement, throws the entire clan in disarray. As police suspicions settle on a member of the family, the Barnabas cousins have no choice but to ask Albert Campion to step in and salvage their reputation.

But everywhere he turns, Campion finds more questions than answers. Just what was the deceased Barnabas doing in that basement in his evening clothes and bowler hat? Why is his secretary acting so strange? And the original disappearing nephew -- where, exactly, did he disappear to?

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. The 7th Albert Campion Mystery. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 1934609129 (May, 2008), 293 p., $14.95.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room. Suspicion immediately falls on his wife's lover, the junior partner in the firm. But how does an unpublished Restoration comedy come to feature in the tragedy? And what of the odd disappearance of another director twenty years before? The trial of Mike Wedgwood for murder is nail-bitingly tense, and Campion needs all his resources to uncover the truth.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. A Campion Mystery. Vintage, ISBN: 0099492822 (October, 2006), 256 p., £6.99.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
When a director of the respected publishing house of Barnabas goes missing, nobody sees fit to question his disappearance. But when his corpse is discovered in the firm's strongroom the questions are never-ending.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. Penguin Classic Crime, ISBN: 0140088350 (December, 1997), 256 p., £5.99.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
The charming Albert Campion, unquestionably a gentleman, is a man capable of predicting the deadly twists of a criminal's mind.
But even Albert Campion is daunted by the huge task of solving a murder that has its beginnings in a disappearance twenty years before. Campion knows the two mysteries are connected. He also knows that the man sitting in the dock at the Old Bailey is inno-cent. But proving it leads Campion into the thick of the most tangled and dangerous murder scheme he has ever encountered.

MARGERY ALLINGHAM is the author of The Fashion in Shrouds and Police at the Funeral, among others.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. Carroll & Graf, ISBN: 0786702915 (October, 1995), 241 p., $4.50.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (UK 1990)

From the Publisher:
When a director of the respected publishing house of Barnabas goes missing, nobody sees fit to question his disappearance. But when his corpse is discovered in the firm's strongroom the questions are never-ending.

Not even Albert Campion, family friend and intrepid investigator, can deflect the scandal away from the murdered man's pretty young widow, or protect the young man who loves her from the accusations which start to fly. So the scandal grows and the trial begins, and Mr Campion - for everybody's sake - must find the murderer...

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. Penguin, ISBN: 0140122427 (January, 1990), 253 p., £3.50.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
When a director of the respected publishing house of Barnabas goes missing, nobody sees fit to question his disappearance.

But when his corpse is discovered in the firm's strongroom the questions are never-ending.

Not even Albert Campion, family friend and intrepid investigator, can deflect the scandal away from the murdered man's pretty young widow, or protect the young man who loves her from the accusations which start to fly. So the scandal grows and the trial begins and Mr Campion - for everybody's sake - must find the murderer...

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. Penguin Classic Crime, ISBN: 0140088350 (August, 1987), 253 p., £3.95.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
When a director of the respected publishing house of Barnabas goes missing, nobody sees fit to question his disappearance. But when his corpse is discovered in the firm's strongroom the questions are never-ending.

Not even Albert Campion, family friend and intrepid investigator, can deflect the scandal away from the murdered man's pretty young widow, or protect the young man who loves her from the accusations which start to fly. So the scandal grows and the trial begins, and Mr Campion - for everybody's sake - must find the murderer...

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553241907 (July, 1984), 241 p., $4.95.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (USA 1973)

From the Publisher:
A Husband Murdered
A Rare Manuscript Stolen
A Man Vanished Into Thin Air

...were all part of the tangled skein of violence and tragedy that lay beneath the seemingly serene surface.

The police arrested the obvious suspect-a man in love with the victim's wife. But Campion knew that all the secrets had not yet come to light, and so he set out on the danger-strewn trail to the truth....

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. Manor Books #95-227 (February, 1973), 224 p., ¢95.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (USA 1961)

From the Publisher:
THE EXCITEMENT BEGAN...
when a typist in a publishing firm unlocked a storage vault and discovered Paul Brande's body lying untidily in the middle of junk-packed shelves and brown paper parcels.

The police blinked, and the publishers, terrified of scandal, called in Albert Campion, Investigator Extraordinary.

After a packet of high-voltage adventures in the outwardly genteel heart of London's business world, Campion finally found the murderer-sort of waterlogged!

MARGERY ALLINGHAM is one of the foremost mystery writers of our day, and FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE is her most tantalizing and ingenious story.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. A beautiful girl who married the wrong man... A killer who could leap into nowhere... And a very efficient murder in a locked room. New York: Avon Books, 1961, Avon Books T394, 224 p., ¢35.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge (USA 1953)

From the Publisher:
BARNABAS, LIMITED, had had its minor scandals -- one involved the acquisition of a Congreve manuscript; one, the mysterious disappearance of a junior partner. These had been largely forgotten, and that distinguished family of English publishers -- pompous John Widdowson, the braggart, Paul Brande, handsome Mike Wedgwood, and big, childlike Ritchie Barnabas -- was determined that the sacred reputation of Barnabas would not be smirched by another.

When Paul Brande was found dead in the firm's strong room, John Widdowson claimed positively that it was an accident. Both the police and Albert Campion were sure that it was murder. Campion also knew that once violence cracks the aura of respectability nothing -- no matter how terrible or piteous or fantastic -- remains hidden under the penetrating spotlight of the police and the press. All the forces and counterforces of hatred, love, and contempt that had been concealed beneath the surface of the Barnabas' quiet lives would be exposed, twisted, and slandered. But if Campion couldn't help the cousins divert the scandal, he could see that justice was done, and he was sure that somewhere in the dusty corners and manuscripts of Barnabas, Limited, there was a story that would reveal the motive and bare the author of a murder.

Scene: London.

Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge. A Twenty-fifth Anniversary CRIME CLUB CLASSIC. New York: Doubleday, 1953, 220 p., $?.??.