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Allingham, Margery
English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane Hughes. Both parents were writers and journalists who regularly contributed to various weekly magazines. Herbert John was the editor of the New London Journal as well as the Christian Globe.
Margery Allingham grew up in Essex as the oldest of three children. She was...
Literary figures
Walter Purbright
Gender: Male
Detective inspector in the little fictive town of Flaxborough in England.He is a decidedly anonymous person without a family. Walter Purbright has an everyday appearance, but he is honest and a good police officer who in a dozen commended novels by Colin Watson with stoic calm deals with the very entertaining and sometimes absurd murder cases he investigates as well as his not particularly...