(1904-1966) UK writer, daughter of H J Allingham, best known for the long-running Albert Campion sequence of detective novels beginning with The Crime at Black Dudley (1929; vt The Black Dudley Murder 1930) and ending with The Mind Readers (1965) – though a further, less than satisfactory Campion volume was completed after her death by her husband Youngman Carter. The Mind Readers is a mystery in which a group of children communicate by a genuinely sf-like form of Technology-based Telepathy facilitated by the newly discovered Element nipponanium. Its exploitation by schoolboys distantly anticipates the Internet: trawling other minds for answers rather than doing one's own classwork. [JC/DRL]
see also: ESP.
Margery Louise Allingham
born Ealing, London: 20 May 1904
died Colchester, Essex: 30 June 1966
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