Margery Allingham (May 1904 – June 1966) was an English novelist and considered alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh to be one of the “Queens of Crime.”

She is probably best known for a series of stories featuring Albert Campion. These include::

• “The Border-Line Case”
• “The Case of the Man with the Sack”
• “The Case of the Old Man in the Window”
• “The Case of the Pro and the Con”
• “The Case of the White Elephant”
• “The Case of the Widow”

Over the years, I have read a number of her Campion stories along with some of her others. Of the four “Queens of Crime” I consider her second only to Christie.

“Three is a Lucky Number” is not a Campion story. It is the story of a younger, handsome man, Ronald Torbay, who marries lonely, moneyed women and then murders them to inherit their fortunes. As he is setting things into motion to dispatch his latest, he is remembering his past “successes.”

It is a great story. I highly recommend!