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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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Oct 03, 2022 John rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: margery-allingham

A surprising ending. Campion is an interesting character and the mystery was who killed Uncle Andrew. Lots of suspects including his brother William. The autocrat elderly Matriarch Caroline who rules the house on Victorian times. No one liked Andrew who was a nasty piece of work.

Written in 1931 there was a racist tone at the end. However, the twist was excellent. Very psychological with Campion uncovering the culprit who goes unpunished.

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Sep 06, 2018 Doris rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, z-2018-challenge, z-2018-new

When cousin Andrew goes missing, Campion's aid is sought. Not surprisingly, Andrew turns up dead, with a cousin implicated in his death and another death following shortly. Campion is very much less foolish seeming in this one, so I liked it rather more than other entries in the series.
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May 30, 2020 John Frankham rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime-detective

As usual, the most brilliant and quirky of the Golden Age whodunnit writers, Margery Allingham, spins an in-family murder puzzle, with an outrageous dénouement. Some tedium in the later exposition, but enough delight for a 4*.

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‘ The imperious Great Aunt Caroline Faraday runs her old Cambridge residence like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact that it's 1931. Furniture and meals are heavy and elaborate, both motorcars and morning tea are forbidden on ...more

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Jun 18, 2018 Jill rated it it was amazing

Shelves: margery-allingham

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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