The Beckoning Lady
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781448138043 (1448138043)
Publish date: March 31st 2013
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Edition language: English
Series: Albert Campion 9 (#15)
This story melds old characters and new, with Campion and Amanda returning to her home village of Pontisbright, following the death of a character met in one of the first novels, and bringing along with this Charlie Luke, the powerhouse detective who has been central to more recent novels.Allingham'...
[These notes were made in 1990. I read this book under the title "The Estate of the Beckoning Lady" (New York: Avon, 1955.] We are back in the country village where Albert Campion first met his wife Amanda, and both she and the precocious offspring have parts to play in this tale of a large party-cu...