<h4> Campion is hunting down a serial killer in London’s theatre-land. </h4><br><p></p><br><p>A spate of murders leaves him with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin letter-case. These minimal clues and a series of peculiar events sets Campion on a race against time that takes him from an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet corner of London to a scrapyard in the East End.<br><br><br><br>Allingham shows her dark edge in Hide My Eyes and evokes the sights, sounds, and inimitable atmosphere of fifties London.<br><br><br><br><i>Hide My Eyes</i> was first published in 1958.<br><br></p><br><h4>Praise for Margery Allingham</h4><br><p>“Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever“ — Sara Paretsky<br><br>“Allingham’s characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains“ — <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br>“Always of the elect, Margery Allingham now towers above them“ — <i>Observer</i><br><br>“Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors“ — <i>The Sunday Times</i><br><br>“Allingham’s work is always of the first rank“ — <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>“Unforgettable.“ — AS Byatt</p>