Newly updated Allingham biography.

Julia Jones's The Adventures of Margery Allingham has been reissued with new information (who knew that Allingham's husband Philip Youngman Carter had a child with another woman?). Here is a brief review from the Independent.

Jones had an article in the Clues theme issue on Allingham (23.1, fall 2004): "'A fine, sturdy piece of work...': Margery Allingham's Book Reviews for Time & Tide 1938–1944."

Greene, others see green in London's Bloomsbury auction.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Bloomsbury's Dec 11-12th auction in London garnered £280 (approximately US$419) for a signed copy of Graham Greene's The Third Man, a first edition of Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die earned £3400 (approximately US$5,082), a first edition of Dick Francis's Nerve sold for £260 (approximately US$389), and Ngaio Marsh's Died in the Wool went for a mere £20 (approximately US$30). In addition, a first edition of Greene's England Made Me, with cover art by Margery Allingham's husband Philip Youngman Carter, was sold for £10,000 (approximately US$14,950).

Also in the auction was the Crime Library of Jonathan Goodman, which included F. Tennyson Jesse's Murder and Its Motives with the author's pencil corrections, which garnered £320 (approximately US$478).