Hide My Eyes

Private detective Albert Campion hunts a serial killer in London’s theatre district, in this crime novel from ＂the best of mystery writers＂ (The New Yorker).

A spate of murders leaves Campion with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin letter-case. These minimal leads, and a series of peculiar events, set the gentleman sleuth on a race against time that takes him from an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet corner of London to a scrapyard in the East End.

Margery Allingham shows her dark edge in Hide My Eyes and evokes the sights, sounds, and inimitable atmosphere of 1950s London, once again proving herself ＂one of the finest ’golden age’ crime novelists＂ (Sunday Telegraph).

＂Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.＂ --Sara Paretsky

＂Allingham’s characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains.＂ --Times Literary Supplement

Margery Allingham, born in 1904 to Emily and Herbert Allingham, was an esteemed English novelist, author, and editor of Christian Globe and the New London Journal. Considered one of the four ＂Queens of Crime＂ from the golden age of detective fiction, Allingham began writing stories and plays at a young age and published her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, at 19. She later studied drama and speech training at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Allingham is best known for her character Albert Campion, a sleuth first introduced in The Crime of Black Dudley. Campion was featured in seventeen subsequent novels, and even more short stories. Allingham continued to write until her death on June 30, 1966.