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I have been slowly reading my way through the Albert Campion books, with somewhat mixed feelings. Although I am a lover of Golden Age mysteries, I have struggled with this series so far. However, I was pleased to find that this, the sixth book featuring Campion, first published in 1934, is much more of a typical crime story than some of the others I have read so far, which seem to rely on the supernatural, or criminal fraternities.
Campion is at the house of Belle Lafcadio, widow of the famous ar ...more
Campion is at the house of Belle Lafcadio, widow of the famous ar ...more
I'm most eager to see how this installment of the Campion series translates to screen; my DVD should be coming today. Definitely NOT up there with the previous entries into the Campion series; here he just sort of comes in and out until the very end; none of the banter that helps to define who he is. Without checking it out to see why, my guess is that Mr. Campion is coming into his own, without the witty banter & silliness from the past, he's becoming more serious & the series is most likely ta
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This book is full of self-centered, whiny people who lie and cheat on each other. Campion doesn't actually do anything except listen to people complain and tell the investigating officer that all his ideas are wrong. Half way through the book we find out who did it in a very clever way, but as Campion has no plan for unmasking the perpetrator, it's just more waiting around. I really didn't like this book - can you tell? What a pity, since the previous one was lots of fun.
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I'm reading the Campion mysteries in order (I read a few many years ago and didn't really like them, thought they were "Sayers Light").
I realize now how wrong I was - Allingham is a great writer, and Campion in this, his sixth outing, is really maturing. He's no longer just the vacuous "universal uncle", using a well-bred, slightly simple facade to hide his intelligence and slip into the background, observing and solving his mysteries.
In this mystery, set among the bohemian artsy set of 1930s ...more
I realize now how wrong I was - Allingham is a great writer, and Campion in this, his sixth outing, is really maturing. He's no longer just the vacuous "universal uncle", using a well-bred, slightly simple facade to hide his intelligence and slip into the background, observing and solving his mysteries.
In this mystery, set among the bohemian artsy set of 1930s ...more
I do have a fondness for mysteries involving art. In Death of a Ghost, a young artist is killed at the showing of a painting, not his painting, one of his mentor’s, Lafcadio. Lafcadio, before he died, left instructions to have one of his paintings that he had boxed up shown each year beginning several years after his death, and his wishes have been faithfully carried out by his widow- quite a strong woman by the way, the kind of woman who takes everything life throws at her, straightens her shou
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Jan 07, 2011
Karen M
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Jan 05, 2019
Patricia
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Brenda
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