Forthcoming Crime Events at Heffers Bookshop Cambridge

This brand-new novel featuring Margery Allingham's Mr Campion recaptures the Golden Age of British Detective Fiction. The Danish Ambassador has requested Albert Campion's help on 'a delicate family matter'. He's very concerned about his eighteen-year-old daughter, who has formed an attachment to a most unsuitable young man.

Recruiting his unemployed actor son, Rupert, to keep an eye on Frank Tate, the young man in question, Mr Campion notes some decidedly odd behaviour on the part of the up-and-coming photographer. Before he can act on the matter, however, both the Ambassador's daughter and her beau disappear without trace. Then a body is discovered in a lagoon.  

With appearances from all of Margery Allingham's regular characters, from Campion's former manservant Lugg, to his wife Lady Amanda Fitton and others, this witty and elegant mystery is sure to delight Allingham's many fans. The dialogue is sharp and witty, the observation keen, and the climax is thrilling and eerily atmospheric.

 Thursday March 12th at 7.00pm: Emily Winslow's The Red House

Heffers & Allison & Busby invite you to celebrate the launch of The Red House by Emily Winslow on Thursday March 12th at 7.00pm at Heffers, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TY 

Maxwell is living his worst nightmare when he begins to question whether his fiance Imogen is his own blood sister, separated by adoption. A visit to Imogen's birthplace in Cambridge stirs up deja vu that intensifies his fears.While Detective Chief Inspector Morris Keene languishes at home, struggling with a debilitating injury and post-traumatic stress, his former partner Detective Inspector Chloe Frohmann is following a suicide case in which Morris's daughter Dora is suspected of assisting the death. When buried skeletons are discovered next to an old barn, the suicide is linked back to Imogen's childhood, revealing horrors of the past and new dangers in the present

If you would like to join us for either of these events, please contact Richard Reynolds on 01223-463222 or email him on literature@heffers.co.uk.

VINTAGE BRING GOLDEN AGE CRIME WRITER MARGERY ALLINGHAM BACK INTO PRINT

EXCLUSIVE WATERSTONES EDITION OF FIRST

MR CAMPION NOVEL BEGINS 2 YEAR

PUBLISHING PROGRAMME

Vintage is delighted to announce it is bringing back into print golden age crime writer Margery Allingham’s complete series of Mr Campion books, beginning this December with an exclusive Waterstones edition of the first in the series, The Crime at Black Dudley.

Joseph Knobbs, Crime Buyer at Waterstones, says: 'We are thrilled to have Allingham's first Mr Campion mystery back in print, exclusively for Christmas.  Our customers love a good mystery - and it's always a treat to find something from crime fiction's golden age that we can bring to a new generation.'

A queen of the golden age of crime writing, Agatha Christie called Margery Allingham ‘a shining light’ of the genre, and in an event at the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival this year J.K. Rowling declared that Allingham was her favourite golden age crime writer, and Mr Campion novel Tiger in the Smoke her particular favourite.  Vintage will publish a new edition of The Tiger in the Smoke in May 2015 with an introduction by bestselling crime writer Susan Hill, and over the next two years will publish twenty Mr Campion books in a bold new series look.

Alongside Margery Allingham, the Vintage Murder Mysteries list is proud to publish a host of classic crime writers including Gladys Mitchell, Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin. 

Notes for editors

The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham exclusive Waterstones edition is available now, published by Vintage price £8.99.

Publication dates for the new Margery Allingham titles are as follows:

DECEMBER 2014

The Crime At Black  Dudley (exclusive to Waterstones)

MAY 2015:

The Tiger In The Smoke (with a new introduction by Susan Hill)

The Crime at Black Dudley (general edition)

Dancers in Mourning

Death of A Ghost

Look To The Lady

SEPTEMBER 2105

Mystery Mile

Police at the Funeral

Sweet Danger

DECEMBER 2015:

Flowers For The Judge

The Case Of The Late Pig

Mr Campion & Others

FEBRUARY 2016:

Coroner’s Pidgin

The Fashion in Shrouds

The Traitor’s Purse

MAY 2016:

Hide My Eye

The Beckoning Lady

More Work for the Undertaker

AUGUST 2016:

Cargo of Eagles

The China Governess

The Mind Readers

The Vintage Murder Mysteries logo, featuring on all titles, is the distinctive emblem of the Death’s Head Hawkmoth which has for centuries been a bringer of doom and an omen of death. The perfect companion then, for the Vintage Murder Mysteries sleuths, for whom sinister occurrences are never far away and murder is always just around the corner.

For further information please contact Bethan Jones on 0207 840 8543 or bjones@randomhouse.co.uk

Bethan Jones

Publicity Director, Harvill Secker and Yellow Jersey Press

Penguin Random House

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