ALLINGHAM, Margery. The Fashion in Shrouds. London: William Heinemann. 1938.
8vo. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and green endpapers with previous ownership label stamped to front pastedown; illustrated dust jacket; pp. [viii], 437, [3]; minimal rubbing to top and bottom of spine and small dent to bottom corner of front board, fading to endpapers and offsetting from pastedowns; loss to bottom of dust jacket and to top of spine with tears to extremities; otherwise very good.
First edition.
Just as the front cover advertises The Fashion in Shrouds as a title intended "For the Connoisseurs of detective fiction", Margery Allingham is celebrated as one of the "Four Queens of Crime" alongside her contemporaries Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Ngaio Marsh.
The Fashion in Shrouds is the tenth novel in the famous, "Albert Campion" series. After Allingham's passing, her husband Philip Youngman Carter completed the final book in the Campion series.
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