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"Some objects just cry out to be stolen, and an obliging ring of international thieves stands ready to heed the cry. Their current target is the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet that the Gyrth family has for centuries held in trust for the British Crown. Kept in a windowless chapel, and protected b...

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Main Author: Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Felony & Mayhem, [2006]
Edition:Felony & Mayhem edition.
Series:Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966, Albert Campion mystery ; 3.
Felony & Mayhem mystery.
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Campion, Albert (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > England > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
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Summary:"Some objects just cry out to be stolen, and an obliging ring of international thieves stands ready to heed the cry. Their current target is the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet that the Gyrth family has for centuries held in trust for the British Crown. Kept in a windowless chapel, and protected by a fearsome curse, the Chalice should be impervious to thievery. But this is 1930, and the crooks have all the advantages of the modern world. Chief among these is the craving for publicity, to which at least one member of the Gyrth clan has succumbed. Her careless chatter about the Chalice seems to have called up all manner of misfortunes--of which larceny is just the beginning--and the vague, bespectacled Albert Campion doesn't look like he'll be much help against them. But looks can be deceptive."--Back cover.
Item Description:"The 3rd Albert Campion mystery."--Cover.
1st U.S. ed. published under the title: The Gyrth chalice mystery.
Originally published in 1931.
Physical Description:276 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:1933397578
9781933397573
Author Notes:Margery Allingham, one of England's leading mystery writers, was born on May 20, 1904, in Ealing, a western suburb of London, but grew up in a remote village in Essex. Both of her parents were writers, and Margery carried on that tradition when she sold her first short story as an eight-year-old. At the Regent Street Polytechnic, she continued writing and studied drama and speech. While there, she wrote a verse play, Dido and Aeneas, in which she had a starring role during performances in London.

At age 19, Allington published her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick. She wrote another novel, The White Cottage Mystery, before creating her most famous character, Albert Campion, in The Black Dudley Murder (published in England as The Crime at Black Dudley) in 1929. Allington went on to create twenty-eight more Campion mysteries, including several collections. She wrote more than 10 other novels, some under the pseudonym Maxwell March, as well as four novellas and sixty-four short stories.

During World War II, Allingham served as First Aid Commandant for her district, organized the billeting and care of evacuees from London, and allowed her house to be turned into a temporary military base for eight officers and two hundred men of the Cameronians. The war greatly deepened Allingham's passion for her country, as evidenced in her later works.

Allingham died of cancer on June 30, 1966.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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