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Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham

Description: ISBN 009950734X / Author: Margery Allingham / Genre: Crime / Thriller / When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancee of an old college ... more

Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham ... friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he little expects the mysterious spate of death and dangers that follows among the bizarre inhabitants of Socrates Close, Cambridge. He and Stanislaus Oates must tread carefully, and battle some complex family dynamics, to solve the case.

Newest Review: ... I think this is a shame, because her books are actually very well written and her plots, although often rather contrived, are ... more

... certainly original. She also writes with a huge amount of humour that comes through very well. This particular book is one of her earlier, and therefore better as far as I am concerned, books. Albert Campion is a bit of a mystery. He comes from a wealthy background, but enjoys delving in the mire of the criminal fraternity. His valet is, in fact, an ex-criminal turned loyal companion, who often manages to use his old connections to rescue Campion; the pair of them often go in for a bit of breaking and entering toget...more

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	Police at the Funeral (Campion Mystery) Pages: 256, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Vintage Last Update 17.12.2009 05:58	£ 7.19	Free! within 24 hours

Police at the Funeral (Campion Mystery)
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Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham: Vanished without trace (653 words)
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Andrew Seeley goes out one Sunday after church and doesn't return. A few days later, his body is found in a nearby stream. This wasn't death by drowning though - he had been shot through the head. Suspicion immediately falls on the family, which consists of the matriarch, Caroline Faraday, her children, William, Julia and Kitty, and a great-niece, Joyce. Through her fiance, Joyce calls in Albert Campion to clear the family name. Campion moves into the family home and soon finds that there is far more to the case than meets the eye, especially when Julia is found dead in bed, having been poisoned. Can Campion find out the truth before there is another ... Read the complete review