The China Governess
{{Short description|Novel by Margery Allingham}}
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{{infobox book |
| name = The China Governess
| image = File:TheChinaGoverness.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = Margery Allingham
| cover_artist = Youngman Carter
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| series = Albert Campion
| genre = Crime novel
| publisher = Chatto & Windus
| release_date = 1963
| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
| pages =
| preceded_by = Hide My Eyes
| followed_by = The Mind Readers
}}
The China Governess is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1963, in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London.{{cite web|url=https://margeryallingham.org.uk/the-novels/|title=The Books|website=The Margery Allingham Society|date=25 April 2017 }} It is the seventeenth novel in the Albert Campion series.
Plot introduction
Timothy Kinnit is trying to elope with Julia, but the question of his origins as a wartime refugee baby stand between them and their future. What does the "Turk Street Mile", once the wickedest street in London but now redeveloped after wartime bombing, have to do with the mystery? Can Albert Campion and the recently widowed Superintendent Charles Luke find the answer and discover who wants it kept a secret?
References
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- Margery Allingham, The China Governess, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1963)
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100924063102/http://www.margeryallingham.org.uk/bibliography.htm An Allingham bibliography], with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907180745/http://www.idir.net/~nedblake/allingham_03v_tbl.html A page about the book] from the Margery Allingham Archive
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Category:Novels by Margery Allingham
Category:Chatto & Windus books
Category:British detective novels
Category:British mystery novels
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