Margery Allingham: Black Plumes (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
"Told with a skillful novelist's sophistication and restraint" -- New York Times
"Delicate sense of atmosphere and character" -- London Times Literary Supplement

Gabrielle Ivory was once a society beauty of such exquisite arrogance that she stared down a queen. But now, nearing 90, she's largely disregarded by the younger members of the clan, who like to imagine granny as a bedridden relic of a dead era. That's a mistake, and it's not their only one. A series of malicious attacks is threatening the family business -- one of the most prestigious art galleries in the world. Robert Madrigal and his high-strung wife, frantic to preserve the status-quo, want to chalk it all up to practical jokes gone wrong. But Gabrielle is not inclined to collude in this delusion. "It's a ridiculous modern affectation," she sniffs, "to pretend to disregard money."

Who's Likely to Like This?
Fans of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the Golden Age of Mystery Fiction

Margery Allingham: Black Plumes. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 9781934609309 (March, 2009), 224 p., $14.95.

Margery Allingham: Black Plumes (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
The slashing of a valuable painting at the renowned Ivory Gallery in London, followed by the murder of the proprietor's son-in-law, Robert, sets the stage for another finely tuned Allingham mystery. The proprietor's mother, 90-year-old Gabrielle Ivory, holds the key to the web of intrigue and danger that permeates the gallery.

Margery Allingham: Black Plumes. Carroll & Graf, ISBN: 0786702907 (September, 1995), 180 p., $3.95.

Margery Allingham: Black Plumes (UK 1966)

From the Publisher:
A cupboard, a corpse, and a cache of family skeletons...
The Ivorys lived in state, in London. All respectable. But when Frances warned her grandmother that 'something was going on', it was the understatement of the decade.

Upstairs, in a cupboard, there was soon to be a corpse, and when that came to light, out fell the whole file of well-suppressed family secrets and hatreds, and life in St James's turned dangerous.

Margery Allingham: Black Plumes. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1966, 4'6.