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Cargo of Eagles

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Cargo of Eagles
First edition
AuthorMargery Allingham
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAlbert Campion
GenreCrime novel
PublisherChatto & Windus
Publication date
1968
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Preceded byThe Mind Readers 
Followed byMr Campion's Farthing 

Cargo of Eagles is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1968, in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London. It was incomplete at her death in 1966 and completed by her husband Philip Youngman Carter. It is the nineteenth novel in the Albert Campion series.

Plot introduction

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Saltey in Essex, the "Back Door to London", has a long history of smuggling, and holds a secret that leads to murder. Albert Campion sends his young American associate Mortimer Kelsey to mingle with the locals to try to solve the mystery. The evidence points to a robbery from a yacht done years before by a dangerous criminal named Teague and his associates.

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