Margery Allingham was born in London, in 1904. Writer's daughter, she published her first novel with nineteen years, although her first success would come in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley, where she presented the adventurer and detective Albert Campion. Margery Allingham was born in London, in 1904. Daughter of writers, she published her first novel with nineteen years, although her first success would come in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley, where she presented the adventurer and detective Albert Campion, a mysterious aristocrat A fan of solving high-flying crimes, he maintains that his name appears in the line of succession to the English throne. Allingham made him the protagonist of 17 other novels and more than 20 stories, which led her to be considered one of the great ladies of the golden age of the English crime novel, along with Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. He died in London in 1966.