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Allingham, Margery.
Coroner's Pidgin.
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1945
Stock Code: 15000
First edition. Duodecimo, pp., [4], 227, [1]. Publisher’s original black cloth, titled in silver to spine, in the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Printed on war economy standard paper. Some rubbing to extremities of jacket, slight loss to head of spine. Spine cocked, spots of soiling to cloth. Contents clean and free of annotations or inscriptions. A very good copy in like jacket. Margarey Allingham was one of the ‘Queens of Crime’, celebrated for inventing the detective Albert Campion. This caper, involving both murder and art theft, is the twelfth instalment in the Campion series. £200.00