Welcome Introduction & Biography Title Listings Mysteries & Detective Stories More Work for the Undertaker Deadly Duo Mr Campion and Others Romances & Adventures Autobiographical Writing as 'Maxwell March' Notes on the Title Listing 'Campion' (BBC TV) Bibliography & Links the Margery Allingham Society Credits, Thanks & Mail

Deadly Duo (Doubleday, 1949) also published as Take Two at Bedtime (World's Work, 1950) Contains two novellas, 'Wanted: Someone Innocent' (previously published under the title Wanted: Someone Innocent in 1946 with three short stories), and 'Last Act'. Wanted: Someone Innocent The story of Gillian Brayton, orphaned and then orphaned again when her uncle dies, leaving her genteel, well-educated, and impoverished. A twist of fate takes her from an old school reunion to the home of a fabulously well-off school friend, Rita Fayre. However, what could be a fairy story rescue turns dark when Rita is murdered, and Gillian is implicated. Last Act The death of a great doyenne of the French stage brings upset and suspicion to the lives of three of her closest connexions: her adopted daughter Margot, her grandson Victor, and the other, disinherited grandson, Denis.  BOOKS      Order Take Two at Bedtime from Amazon.co.uk Another of the Penguin Classic Crime editions, available for the time being.  AUDIO     Order Take Two at Bedtime in Audio cassette format from Amazon.co.uk Read by Carole Boyd. Complete and unabridged.