Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Margery Allingham NPG x10310

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

One of the most significant writers of detective fiction of the twentieth century, Allingham was encouraged by her father, an editor of boys' adventure stories and detective tales. Allingham wished to turn the detective story into a serious genre, stating that she made 'no distinction between the novel and the thriller'. Her husband, Philip Youngman Carter, illustrated the dust jackets for many of her novels, which included More Work for the Undertaker (1949) and The Beckoning Lady (1955), and often featured her detective hero,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.