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Black'erchief Dick
A #HistoricalNovel (1923) about smugglers set on Mersea Island in the 17th century inspired by a series of seances held by the Allingham family while on holiday on Mersea.
#MargeryAllingham an English novelist from the #GoldenAgeOfDetectiveFiction , and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
#DetectiveFiction
#Novel #Fiction
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62304

A #HistoricalNovel (1923) about smugglers set on Mersea Island in the 17th century inspired by a series of seances held by the Allingham family while on holiday on Mersea.
#MargeryAllingham an English novelist from the #GoldenAgeOfDetectiveFiction , and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
#DetectiveFiction
#Novel #Fiction
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62304