Spivak published inexpensive digest-sized paperback editions, often abridged, of works by authors including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Rex Stout and Cornell Woolrich.
It is extensively relied upon, for example, by the historian John Lukacs in his study of Five Days in London, May 1940.
William Allingham | Helen Allingham | Margery Allingham | Margery Kempe | Margery Wentworth | Margery Sharp | Margery le Despencer | Margery Fish | Allingham's watercolour painting of Craigenputtock |
The island is used as a setting for several works of Margery Allingham, including her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, published in 1923 when she was 19; Mystery Mile and The Mind Readers.
A fictitious play by Congreve, The Gallivant, features prominently in the novel Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham.