"A top-notch mystery full of keen characterization, humor, old English atmosphere, a charmingly decadent family, and a few sudden deaths." --The New York Times A beggarwoman on a bench arouses Albert Campion's curiosity--and helps Scotland Yard lure him...
"A top-notch mystery, full of keen characterization, humor, old English atmosphere, a charmingly decadent family and a few sudden deaths" - New York Times In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric...
An Albert Campion mystery. In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there...