Tales on the Off-Beat

The husband and life-long collaborator of Margery Allingham, one of the truly great British crime writers, Philip (‘Pip’) Youngman Carter was a prolific journalist, artist, book-jacket designer and short-story writer. For the first time, Tales on the Off-Beat collects the best of his short fiction, from rare stories written whilst a serving army officer in the Western Desert in WWII to his best-known tales of the unexpected, the mysterious and the downright spooky, which appeared in Argosy and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 1959-1963. Edited by Mike Ripley, who completed Youngman Carter’s unfinished Albert Campion novel as Mr Campion’s Farewell in 2014, with an Introduction by Barry Pike, Chairman of the Margery Allingham Society.


Genre: Mystery