The White Cottage Mystery
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780881846669 (088184666X)
ASIN: 088184666X
Publish date: 1990-09
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Pages no: 139
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Golden Age Mystery,
Fiction
Written initially as a magazine serial, this is a short, well-constructed mystery where the culprit is very much the last person you'd think of, but also the obvious person in the context of the facts of the crime.
[These notes were made in 1990:]. This slim and little-known volume is Margery Allingham's first mystery novel, originally published as a serial, and now reprinted with some editing-out of serial-induced repetitions. It features not Campion, but one W.T. Challoner of the Yard, and his impetuous son...