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* CreatorsOddball: The Campion books might be billed as mystery stories, but Margery Allingham often switched between genres (helped by the fact that Campion was quite versatile). Sure, she had whodunnits and country house murders, but there were also adventure novels, thrillers, comedies of manners, secret agent thrillers, mild science fiction, and mild fantasy/horror.* DiedDuringProduction: Allingham passed away in the middle of writing a Campion novel. It was finished by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, who later wrote two more Campion novels of his own. They're remembered as pretty mediocre, if they're remembered at all.
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* CreatorsOddball: The Campion books might be billed as mystery stories, but Margery Allingham often switched between genres (helped by the fact that Campion was quite versatile). Sure, she had whodunnits and country house murders, but there were also adventure novels, thrillers, comedies of manners, secret agent thrillers, mild science fiction, and mild fantasy/horror.fantasy/horror.
* DiedDuringProduction: Allingham passed away in the middle of writing a Campion novel. It was finished by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, who later wrote two more Campion novels of his own. They're remembered as pretty mediocre, if they're remembered at all.
* DiedDuringProduction: Allingham passed away in the middle of writing a Campion novel. It was finished by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, who later wrote two more Campion novels of his own. They're remembered as pretty mediocre, if they're remembered at all.
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* DiedDuringProduction: Allingham passed away in the middle of writing a Campion novel. It was finished by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, who later wrote two more Campion novels of his own. They're remembered as pretty mediocre, if they're remembered at all.
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* CreatorsOddball: The Campion books might be billed as mystery stories, but Margery Allingham often switched between genres (helped by the fact that Campion was quite versatile). Sure, she had whodunnits and country house murders, but there were also adventure novels, thrillers, comedies of manners, secret agent thrillers, mild science fiction, and mild fantasy/horror.* DiedDuringProduction: Allingham passed away in the middle of writing a Campion novel. It was finished by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, who later wrote two more Campion novels of his own. They're remembered as pretty mediocre, if they're remembered at all.
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* DiedDuringProduction: Allingham passed away in the middle of writing a Campion novel. It was finished by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, who later wrote two more Campion novels of his own. They're remembered as pretty mediocre, if they're remembered at all.
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* ReferencedBy: In ''The Fashion in Shrouds'', Lugg says "it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." Translated from hardboiled British slang, this basically means "it's crazy to bribe a police officer with counterfeit money." This comes across as a total WordSalad in [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage American English]], and was used as a RunningGag in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' for many years.
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* ReferencedBy: In ''The Fashion in Shrouds'', Lugg says "it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." Translated from snide," which is hardboiled British slang, this basically means slang for "it's crazy to bribe a police officer with counterfeit money." This However, this comes across as a total WordSalad in [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage American English]], and was used as a RunningGag in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' for many years.
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* LifeImitatesArt: After World War II, Margery Allingham was told that the diabolical Nazi plan that Campion has to stop in "Traitor's Purse" was something that the Nazis had actually tried to do.
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* LifeImitatesArt: After World War II, Margery Allingham was told that the diabolical Nazi plan that Campion has to stop in "Traitor's Purse" was something that the Nazis had actually tried to do.do.
* ReferencedBy: In ''The Fashion in Shrouds'', Lugg says "it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." Translated from hardboiled British slang, this basically means "it's crazy to bribe a police officer with counterfeit money." This comes across as a total WordSalad in [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage American English]], and was used as a RunningGag in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' for many years.
* ReferencedBy: In ''The Fashion in Shrouds'', Lugg says "it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." Translated from hardboiled British slang, this basically means "it's crazy to bribe a police officer with counterfeit money." This comes across as a total WordSalad in [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage American English]], and was used as a RunningGag in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' for many years.
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* AccentDepundent: The clue to the answer of who Simister is [[spoiler: (Alistair "Ali" Barber)]], is likely to take American readers a moment or two to 'get' it.
* LifeImitatesArt: After World War II, Margery Allingham was told that the diabolical Nazi plan that Campion has to stop in "Traitor's Purse" was something that the Nazis had actually tried to do.
* LifeImitatesArt: After World War II, Margery Allingham was told that the diabolical Nazi plan that Campion has to stop in "Traitor's Purse" was something that the Nazis had actually tried to do.
