Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six Against the Yard | 1937 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 2 | Nine Detective Stories | 1964 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 3 | Murder for Christmas | 1987 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 4 | English Country House Murders | 1988 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 5 | Fifty Best Mysteries | 1993 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 6 | Canine Crimes | 1993 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 7 | A Century of British Mystery and Suspense | 2000 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 8 | Crime Story Collection | 2000 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 9 | Crime Never Pays | 2001 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 10 | Murder Most Merry | 2002 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 11 | Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays | 2019 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 12 | Bodies from the Library 2 | 2019 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
| 13 | Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London’s Detectives | 2025 | Margery Allingham | Buy |
Margery Allingham’s work has been included in crime and mystery anthologies from the 1930s through to the present day. Six Against the Yard (1937) is one of the more unusual examples: six prominent crime writers each contributed a story in which the narrator commits what they believed was the perfect murder, with ex-Superintendent Cornish of Scotland Yard analyzing each story for practical flaws. The result is part fiction, part genuine procedural curiosity.
Later anthologies gathered her work alongside that of other Golden Age writers, reflecting the sustained interest in mid-century British crime fiction. Collections like English Country House Murders (1988) and A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000) placed Allingham’s stories in the context of the broader tradition to which she contributed. Murder for Christmas (1987) and Murder Most Merry (2002) drew on the seasonal strand of her short fiction.
More recent publications like Bodies from the Library 2 (2019) and Metropolitan Mysteries (2025) reflect ongoing scholarly and popular interest in Golden Age writers, bringing together stories from archives and magazine runs that have been out of print for decades. Allingham’s presence across so many different anthologies across nearly a century speaks to the durability of her short fiction.