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An Albert Campion Mystery

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An Albert Campion mystery.

In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths.

And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.

©2013 Margery Allingham (P)2013 Audible Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Fiction Crime

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"Miss Allingham is one of the few writers who can deal with art. Both her passions and her patterns are beautiful, accurate and serene" ( Daily Telegraph)
"Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world" ( Tatler)
"Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered" (P.D. James)
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Marjory Allingham is often compared to Agatha Christie but a fairer comparison would be with Dickens. Like him, she brings the London of her day to life with all its sights and smells and contrasts of poverty and opulence. She, has an unerring ear for dialogue and is often funny, and (again like Dickens) her characters sometimes border on the grotesque with names to match (Jas Bowels the undertaker for example) but they always convince as real, complex, often pathetic people. She's a sharp and wicked observer but always humane and compassionate. The stories are more than a bit far fetched! - But no less enjoyable for that, and More Work for the Undertaker is one of her best. David Thorpe is an excellent reader - different from Philip Franks who also reads her novels, but just as good.

Outstanding Campion mystery

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Allingham's writing is beautifully whimsical and extremely funny. The great lady was truly one of the great writers in all of English fiction, not just the Golden Age novelists of classic detective fiction. Campion is nothing less than perfect, the story is a typically rapid uncovering of the criminal sprinkled with the most wondrous, laugh out loud descriptions of character and place. Thorpe is a magnificent narrator.

Allingham with Thorpe - Perfection

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As usual a well written Campion story if you like the gentle murder & mystery. Well read, let’s have more from this narrator.

Well read

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Packed with so many lively, complex characters, situations and bizarre disclosures, this is one of my favorite Allingham's, one of her funniest and most surreal mysteries, voiced with aplomb by David Thorpe.

One of her best.

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I've liked this narrator in the previous books, but in this case... Some of the character's voices were so horrible I had to skip quite a bit. Lawrence for example, made my blood pressure climb so much I got a migraine creeping on. I couldn't focus on the dialogue.

The story was all right, but not the best one.

Ok story, bad character voices

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