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This, thirteenth, Albert Campion mystery, published in 1948, sees us in post-war London. Campion himself is due to be packed off to be a governor of an unnamed location, but you sense it is not really what he wants. Lugg has announced he will have to find a new position and Amanda’s work is important to her and there is a suggestion she may not follow.
So, when Campion is invited to lunch by Oates and a mystery put in front of him, he does not seem to resist too hard. There are rumours about Apro ...more
So, when Campion is invited to lunch by Oates and a mystery put in front of him, he does not seem to resist too hard. There are rumours about Apro ...more
I'm reading Allingham's Campion series in order, and this was next on my list - interesting, but I had a hard time getting into it. I think it was because of the Palinode family, around whom the mystery (such as it is) evolves. I kept getting the impression I was supposed to find them charming and whimsical, but I just found them rather pathetic and obnoxious (made it hard to be sympathetic to them as characters, needless to say).
Also, the previous two installments of the series ("Traitor's Pur ...more
Also, the previous two installments of the series ("Traitor's Pur ...more
‘I should hardly think there was much danger of indiscriminate poisoning,’ Campion ventured diffidently. ‘I mean, what are the facts? An old lady died a couple of months ago and for reasons best known to themselves the police have dug her up again. No one knows yet what the findings of the public analyst will be. The inquest hasn’t been resumed. No, I don’t think there’s anything to show that everyone in the household is now in danger, I really don’t. I mean it’s not as though any further attemp
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Albert Campion has been asked to help in a case which is puzzling his old boss. The Palinodes are a wealthy family which has fallen on hard times and two of them have died in what may or may not be suspicious circumstances. Campion has also been offered a job abroad which he is in two minds about whether to accept. In the end the lure of police work is something he cannot resist. The house in which all the remaining Palinodes live is situated in Apron Street which seems like a throwback to an ea
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Although this book is set after the war, it gave the feeling of a Victorian mystery. Campion, having been offered a job abroad, is enticed by the police to solve the mystery of two deaths occurring in the same family. One death being very suspicious. This brings us to Apron Street, where the feeling of time standing still is very strong. The family's home is situated here in a very old fashioned area. There is besides the family home, now owned by an old friend of Campion, where the family are l
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Not one of my personal favorites, and this is #12 in the series.
In this one, Albert Campion is called upon to look into two mysterious deaths in the Palinode family. They are a group of rather eccentric people, however, the deaths are by poison, so it becomes a police matter. Throw in anonymous letters, some strange doings at the local undertaker & a missing coffin, and it makes for an adventure Campion won't soon forget.
To be really honest, I found this one somewhat tedious and had a really ha ...more
In this one, Albert Campion is called upon to look into two mysterious deaths in the Palinode family. They are a group of rather eccentric people, however, the deaths are by poison, so it becomes a police matter. Throw in anonymous letters, some strange doings at the local undertaker & a missing coffin, and it makes for an adventure Campion won't soon forget.
To be really honest, I found this one somewhat tedious and had a really ha ...more
May 08, 2015
Miss M
marked it as possible-kindle-re-read
Aug 16, 2016
Zsa Zsa
marked it as to-read
Oct 30, 2016
Melinda
marked it as to-read
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Lesley Moss
marked it as to-read
