Margery Allingham Books in Order

How many Margery Allingham books are there?

Margery Allingham has 44 books, released between 1923 and 2020. 13 of them were published after Margery Allingham's death in 1966. 27 of them belong to the Albert Campion series.

Margery Allingham Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 44 Margery Allingham books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

Margery Allingham series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

• Albert Campion books in order 37 books

Margery Allingham books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Margery Allingham Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Margery Allingham books run from Blackkerchief Dick (1923) to The Case Book of Mr. Campion (2020), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Margery Allingham in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Margery Allingham books in order?

You only need to read Margery Allingham books in order within the Albert Campion series, which holds 27 of the 44 Margery Allingham books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Margery Allingham

Start with The Crime at Black Dudley / The Black Dudley Murder (1929), the first Albert Campion book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Blackkerchief Dick (1923).

What is the newest Margery Allingham book?

The Case Book of Mr. Campion (2020) is the newest Margery Allingham book released so far.

Is there a new Margery Allingham book coming?

No next Margery Allingham book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Margery Allingham at a glance

Died

Margery Allingham died in 1966, according to Wikidata.

After death

Books credited to Margery Allingham are still being published after Margery Allingham's death in 1966; the newest appeared in 2020.

Release pace

Margery Allingham books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.

Length

5,643 pages across the 23 of 44 books with a recorded length, a median of 242 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Margery Allingham books, 13 of 44, were published in the 1930s.

What the Margery Allingham books are about

37 of the 44 Margery Allingham books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: campion, albert (fictitious character) is tagged on 26 of 37. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Campion, albert (fictitious character) 26 of 37 books
• Albert Campion (Fictitious character) 22 of 37 books
• Private investigators 22 of 37 books
• Mystery & detective 21 of 37 books
• Mystery & detective, traditional 19 of 37 books
• England 17 of 37 books
• Crime 5 of 37 books
• Fiction in English 3 of 37 books