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Mystery writer completely exhausted regular appearances of Gothic axemen (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

allingham

'mystery writer' is the definition.
(Margery Allingham)

'completely exhausted regular appearances of gothic axemen' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'completely' could be 'all' ('all' can be a synonym of 'completely') and 'all' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

(Other definitions for allingham that I've seen before include "She wrote detective stories" , "Margery --, author" , "Margery --, English crime writer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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