Cargo of EaglesFirst published by Chatto & Windus 1968This book was left unfinished by Margery Allingham at the time of her death in June 1966. It has been completed by her husband Philip Youngman Carter. The whole fabric of this story had been mapped out long before her death and the book has been finished by him at her specific request. |
Twenty years ago Saltey was linked to a daring, brutal, but botched, act of piracy. And at the same time the local undertaker was found in one of his coffins - dead.
Modern events are equally mysterious. A man killed by a silver bullet. A missing ex-prisoner. An unexpected inheritance and a spate of poison-pen letters. A wild gang of bikers, drugs and vandalism. Even a ghost or two. But with the help of a love-lorn historian and a one-woman avenging army (not forgetting Lugg, taking time off from planning his retirement bungalow) Campion uncovers layers of deceit, malice and murder.
And at the bottom of it all is a cargo of eagles...