“Margery (Louise) Allingham: (1904-1966) British detective story writer. She published her first story at 8, her first novel at 19, and her first detective story in her early 20s. Her stories about the fictional detective about the fictional detective Albert Campion became very popular, and such novels as Tiger in the Smoke (1952) and The China Governess (1962), with their intellectual style and psychological insight, helped win detective fiction consideration as a serious literary genre.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
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