Julia Jones has loved Margery Allingham’s novels ever since she first encountered them (together with memorably stiff gin-and-tonics) in a cold Wiltshire farmhouse in the early 1970s. Her biographies of Margery, The Adventures of Margery Allingham, and Herbert, Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory, are both published by Golden Duck. She has also produced new editions of Phil Allingham’s Cheapjack and Margery’s wartime memoir The Oaken Heart.