Monday 15 December 2014

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

20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA
0207 840 8543 / 07500120270
@BethanKJones


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