by Margery Allingham
I started the new year with a minor Allingham binge and, having now read a fair number of her Campion mysteries (12, i.e. 2/3 of the 18 novels that she herself completed), I think I can safely say that while I won't ever like this series as much as I do those of Christie, Sayers, and Marsh, when All...
Meg Elginbrodde, a war widow for five years, is on the verge of being remarried when she starts receiving grainy contemporary photos of a man who looks very like her dead husband. Campion, a relation of Meg's, steps in to try to discover whether this is an impersonation, blackmail, or if, by some s...
The first Margery Allingham book I ever read, and wonderful.
This is a terrific book with extremely vivid and particular characters and an absolutely palpable atmosphere of menace as a dangerous man stalks through islands of brightly lit places isolated and disconnected from one another by the encroaching fog. Whew. The woman could write all right.
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