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Home > Books > Traditional English Mysteries > Margery Allingham

Mystery Mile

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With his first case (see The Crime at Black Dudley), Albert Campion, that chatty, peculiar young man, scored a genteely British coup. His new client, though, is the very American Judge Crowdy Lobbett. His Honor has come into possession of evidence identifying the criminal mastermind behind a gang that is terrorizing New York, and the gang, in response, has begun terrorizing Judge Lobbett. For safety, Campion sends the Judge and his family to Mystery Mile, a secluded house deep in the British countryside. But that safety is illusory: Soon after their arrival the local vicar is killed a clear message from the gang. The gang, however, has underestimated Campion. Beneath his stream of banter is a razor-sharp detective's intellect, and while he always has a quip at the ready, he is soon sending deadly serious messages of his own. "One of the top 50 mysteries of all time" Los Angeles Times "For elegance, for wit, for characters and plotting, my desert-island list would certainly include Margery Allingham's Mystery

Feature: Allingham, Margery

Feature: 2006