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Police at the Funeral (Albert Campion Mystery, #4)

Margery Allingham

Start date: July 13, 2018

Finish date: August 10, 2018

Discussion: Buddy reads

Why we're reading this: The next in our series of Allingham buddy reads.
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Jul 13, 2018 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the fourth Albert Campion novel, published in 1931. I have had mixed reactions to the series so far, but I have certainly enjoyed this one the most so far.

Campion is contacted by Joyce Blount, who is engaged to a friend of his. Joyce lives in Socrates Close, Cambridge, surrounded by the old, eccentric, Faraday family; headed by matriarch, Caroline Faraday, widow of a famous academic. However, Uncle Andrew has gone missing and all is not well within the household. Joyce is almost hysteri ...more

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Jun 04, 2018 ShanDizzy rated it liked it · review of another edition

"There's rank evil there," he went on unexpectedly fixing his bright eyes on the others face and speaking with an intense sincerity which finally removed any trace of his former frigidity. "There they are, a family forty years out of date, all vigorous energetic people by temperament, all, save for the old lady, without their fair share of brains, and herded together in that great mausoleum of a house, tyrannised over by one of the most astounding personalities I've ever encountered. Imagine it, ...more

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Jun 18, 2018 Jill rated it it was amazing

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This book was different from the first three, insofar, as this was Campion at a family home trying to solve the mystery and there were no criminal gangs. Being alone, apart from the strange behavior at the very beginning, Campion is a much more serious character. Having been engaged as a personal assistant by the matriarch of the family, who turns out to know him, but never reveals his true identity, he works his way through the mystery, which had me guessing right until the end.
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