The Beckoning Lady

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The Beckoning Lady

First edition
Author	Margery Allingham
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Albert Campion
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
Publication date	1955
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Preceded by	The Tiger in the Smoke
Followed by	Hide My Eyes

The Beckoning Lady is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1955 in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London; and in the United States by Doubleday, New York under the title The Estate of the Beckoning Lady. It is the 15th novel in the Albert Campion series.

Plot introduction[]

Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.

References[]

• Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1955)
• Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Lady, (Vintage, Random House, 2007)

External links[]

• An Allingham bibliography, with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society
• A page about the book from the Margery Allingham Archive on archive.org
• A 2011 podcast about The Beckoning Lady