Margery Allingham: The Strange World of Albert Campion | Golden Age Mystery
Agatha Christie gave us the puzzle. Dorothy L. Sayers gave us Lord Peter Wimsey. But Margery Allingham created something stranger.
In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we enter Allingham’s peculiar corner of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction through four remarkable radio dramatizations: The Case of the Late Pig, On Christmas Day in the Morning, Look to the Lady, and Black Plumes.
At the center of much of Allingham’s world is Albert Campion—the deceptively foolish-looking gentleman detective who begins almost as a caricature of the aristocratic sleuth and gradually becomes one of detective…
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