Margery Allingham

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Margery Allingham
Born	Margery Louise Allingham (1904-05-20)20 May 1904 Ealing, London, UK
Died	30 June 1966(1966-06-30) (aged 62) Colchester, Essex, England
Pen name	Margery Allingham Maxwell March
Occupation	Novelist
Period	1923–1966
Genre	Mystery, crime fiction
Spouse	Philip Youngman Carter
Parents	Herbert Allingham and Emmie Allingham

Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.

Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Initially believed to be a parody of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Campion matured into a strongly individual character, part-detective, part-adventurer, who formed the basis for 18 novels and many short stories.