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I have to admit that I have found this a very frustrating, and inconsistent, series. One of the things I liked most about the books was Campion himself, but he seems to have virtually vanished in later books and hardly appears in this, the seventeenth in the series.
The storyline, as so many with Allingham, is convoluted and confusing. Christie is sometimes accused of being somewhat mundane as a writer, but she could plot better than any other GA crime writer and - if she did sometimes resort to ...more
The storyline, as so many with Allingham, is convoluted and confusing. Christie is sometimes accused of being somewhat mundane as a writer, but she could plot better than any other GA crime writer and - if she did sometimes resort to ...more
May 23, 2021
Susan in NC
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it was ok
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This will be my last Allingham mystery, I’ve tried several books with the Reading the Detectives group, and I just don’t like her style. She has some lovely writing, but it’s far too dense or something for my taste. Agatha Christie is my gold standard for a golden age mystery, and I’ve enjoyed other authors of the period; I kept trying these because I bought several paperbacks years ago, after I enjoyed Peter Davidson playing Campion on PBS Masterpiece Mystery, and thought I’d enjoy the books. I
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Sadly, this is one of the last books of the Campion series; I'm going to really miss these books when I've finished. Sigh. Oh well, I suppose that's why I keep these things forever so that someday I can go back and reread them.
In the prologue, a council flat is vandalized to such an extent that it gives one of its occupants a fatal stroke upon her discovery of the damage. Then on to the main part of the novel: Timothy Kinnit and Julia Laurell are a young couple engaged to be married. Both are f ...more
In the prologue, a council flat is vandalized to such an extent that it gives one of its occupants a fatal stroke upon her discovery of the damage. Then on to the main part of the novel: Timothy Kinnit and Julia Laurell are a young couple engaged to be married. Both are f ...more
‘I must exist. I can’t float about unattached and meaningless. I’m a component part. I’m the continuation of an existing story, as is everybody else. I thought I knew my story, but I don’t. I have been misinformed in a very thorough way. I’ve got to go on and find out who I am or I’m unrecognisable even to myself.’
I enjoyed this last (for me) Campion novel. In reading the reviews of people that I respect, I have opted not to read the next stories to finish out the series since the reviews were n ...more
I enjoyed this last (for me) Campion novel. In reading the reviews of people that I respect, I have opted not to read the next stories to finish out the series since the reviews were n ...more
I seem to be going against the flow here, but I really enjoyed this book. The beginning I thought was somewhat gothic with the strange old lady welcoming the young girl to a old, partially ruined house in the country, and showing her a bridal room where she was expected to stay. The story behind the young woman and man wanting to marry before the girl's coming of age, seemed likely, especially as she was an heiress to a fortune. I did get a bit frustrated with the man needing to know who his tru
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This was one of Allingham's better Campion novels, in my opinion-no criminal gangs, no incomprehensible in-crowd language and jokes, no more than manageable class superiority/mockery of the lower classes, and quite a good mystery. I've been doing a reread of the entire Campion series and I must say that her novels have not aged nearly as well as those of that other Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, but it has been fun to follow Campion, Lugg, and Charlie Luke through the decades.
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Jul 03, 2017
Diana
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really liked it
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Oh this one was very twisty. It's not the typical murder mystery; it's not until the very end that it is revealed that there even is a murder. Each time I thought I knew where Allingham was going with the story she would take off in a new, unexpected direction.
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Apr 12, 2010
Aubree Goodlad
marked it as to-read
Jan 07, 2011
Karen M
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really liked it
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May 16, 2011
Abbey
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Aug 16, 2016
Zsa Zsa
marked it as to-read
Jan 24, 2018
Mary Ellen
marked it as to-read
