Albert Campion Series by Margery Allingham

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  • Dancers in Mourning (Albert Campion #9)
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    Dancers in Mourning (Albert Campion #9)

    Margery Allingham

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1937

    When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling—Albert Campion. Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate and an ageing starlet is killed... more

  • Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion #12)
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    Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion #12)

    Margery Allingham

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1945

    Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his manservant, has brought him an unusual gift from Edna, Dowager Marchioness of Carados: the black silk nightdress-clad body of a dead woman, an apparent suicide, found in her son's bed the night before his wedding.All the books from Albert Campion series are standalone titles and can be read in any order.

  • The Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion #15)
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    The Beckoning Lady (Albert Campion #15)

    Margery Allingham

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1955

    Private detective Albert Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill. Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic Suffolk village, but it is a less romantic peril than on Mr Campion’s first visit, more than twenty years ago... more

  • Tether's End (Albert Campion #16)
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    Tether's End (Albert Campion #16)

    Margery Allingham

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1958

    In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer in London's theatreland. A spate of murders leaves him with only two baffling clues: a lefthand glove and a lizard-skin letter case. These minimal clues and a series of perculiar events sets Campion on a race against time that takes him from an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet corner of London to a scrapyard in the East End... more

  • The China Governess (Albert Campion #17)
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    The China Governess (Albert Campion #17)

    Margery Allingham

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1962

    Truth that kills Adopted heir Timothy Kinnit refuses to marry his beloved Julia until he learns the truth about his parentage. But when Albert Campion traces the roots of young Timothy’s family tree, he finds them buried in a century-old scandal involving a jilted nanny and a rather nasty murder. When another tragic death occurs, a sinister Victorian blood legacy suddenly threatens the lives of the two young lovers... and Campion’s to boot!

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