Hide My Eyes

Private detective Albert Campion hunts a serial killer in London's theatre district, in this crime novel from ';the best of mystery writers' (The New Yorker). A spate of murders leaves Campion with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin letter-case.

These minimal leads, and a series of peculiar events, set the gentleman sleuth on a race against time that takes him from an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet corner of London to a scrapyard in the East End. Margery Allingham shows her dark edge in Hide My Eyes and evokes the sights, sounds, and inimitable atmosphere of 1950s London, once again proving herself ';one of the finest ';golden age' crime novelists' (Sunday Telegraph). ';Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.' Sara Paretsky ';Allingham's characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains.' Times Literary Supplement