Where to Begin ...

I'm waiting to talk with Carmen Callil about our plans for the Henley Literary Festival this weekend. Neither of us know whether anyone who may come to our event will have read Margery Allingham's novels. Perhaps they dimly remember seeing the green Penguin editions somewhere years ago, perhaps they purchased the handsome Hogarth paperbacks that Carmen re-published or perhaps, as the Henley organisers seem to expect, they are coming to find out whether Allingham is a new author for them.

The question they may be asking is Where to Begin?