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Deze serie volgt een stijlvolle en intelligente detective van adellijke afkomst die de complexiteit van misdaad in het bruisende Londen onderzoekt, vaak vergezeld door zijn trouwe assistent. De meesterlijke proza van de auteur en haar oog voor sfeervolle details brengen elk mysterie tot leven met spanning en intellectuele scherpte. Lezers zullen genieten van de ingewikkelde plots, de genuanceerde karakterstudies en de subtiele humor die door de onderzoeken verweven is. Het is een quintessentiële collectie voor liefhebbers van klassieke detectiveverhalen met een verfijnde, tijdloze aantrekkingskracht.

Death of a Ghost
Sweet Danger
Police at the Funeral
Look to the Lady
Mystery Mile
The crime at Black Dudley

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  1. The crime at Black Dudley

    • 240bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen

    THE FIRST CAMPION MYSTERY 'Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light' Agatha Christie A suspicious death and a haunted family heirloom were not advertised when Dr George Abbershaw and a groupof London's brightest young things accepted an invitation to the mansion of Black Dudley. Skulduggery is most certainly afoot, and the party-goers soon realise that they're trapped in the secluded house. Amongst them is a stranger who promises to unravel the villainous plots behind their incarceration - but can George and his friends trust the peculiar young man who calls himself Albert Campion?

    The crime at Black Dudley1
    3,7

  2. Mystery Mile

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. The enigmatic amateur sleuth bundles the Judge off to the country house of Mystery Mile, where it's a race against time to keep the Simister posse at bay - and to pinpoint the identity of the mastermind behind their criminal empire...

    Mystery Mile2
    3,9

  3. Look to the Lady

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble.

    Look to the Lady3
    3,9

  4. Police at the Funeral

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. No time is wasted in summoning Albert Campion and his sleuthing skills away from the bustle of Piccadilly to investigate - but little does he expect to be greeted by a band of eccentric relatives all at daggers with each other.

    Police at the Funeral4
    3,9

  5. Sweet Danger

    • 288bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen

    Aristocratic detective Albert Campion is called upon by the British government to establish ownership of the tiny, oil-rich principality of Averna on the Adriatic Coast. The titled but impoverished Fitton family lay claim to it, but the deeds are nowhere to be found. With the help of his loyal chums and sidekick, retired cat burglar Magersfontein Lugg, Campion must pit his wits against a criminal financier and his heavies in order to unearth the truth.A quintessential Golden Age detective story and utterly gripping thriller, Sweet Danger displays Margery Allingham at her absolute best.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

    Sweet Danger5
    4,0

  6. Death of a Ghost

    The great artist John Lafcadio has been dead for 18 years and for the last 8 years his wife has organised a one painting exhibition of his remaining unseen work to keep his reputation alive. It is at the eighth gathering, that a young artist, Thomas Dacre, is murdered. Once the obvious suspects, Dacre's girlfriend Linda Lafcadio, and the art dealer Max Fustian, who makes a seemingly frivolous confession are dismissed, the case remains unsolved and hushed up. However, when the works and possessions of the murdered artist start to disappear and a further murder takes place in the Lafcadio extended household, the detective Albert Campion learns more about the dead artist's paintings and the identity of the murderer.

    Death of a Ghost6
    3,5

  7. Flowers for the judge

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm - cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise - and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier.

    Flowers for the judge7
    4,0

  8. Campion: The Case of the Late Pig

    • 138bladzijden
    • 5 uur lezen

    Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peters's body goes missing. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.

    Campion: The Case of the Late Pig8
    3,7

  9. Dancers in mourning

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWhen 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.

    Dancers in mourning9
    3,7

  10. The Fashion in Shrouds

    • 288bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen

    The novel centres on the famous actress Georgia Wells, and her romantic conquests. One of them is Alan Dell, who at first appears to be in love with the fashion designer Valentine Ferris, who happens to be Albert Campion's sister. Then Georgia's second husband is poisoned, and there is strange news of his predecessor. It is a novel filled with colourful aristocratic characters, including a reappearance of Lady Amanda Fitton, who has now trained as an airplane engineer, working with Alan Dell on his Alandel machines. The professional women Georgia, Val and Amanda are very much to the forefront and sexual politics are frequently discussed

    The Fashion in Shrouds10
    3,8

  11. Traitor´s Purse

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'. On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancee, Campion struggles desperately to put the pieces together while the very fate of England is at stake.

    Traitor´s Purse11
    4,0

  12. Pearls Before Swine

    Campion returns from three years work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his manservant, has brought him an unusual gift - the black silk nightdress-clad body of a dead woman, an apparent suicide. Now, Campion must assist Detective Chief Inspector Oates and Superintendent Yeo in unravelling a plot of deception and murder. Originally pu.

    Pearls Before Swine12
    4,0

  13. More Work for the Undertaker

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her `a shining light'.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.

    More Work for the Undertaker13
    4,0

  14. The Tiger in the Smoke

    Meg Elginbrodde's plans to marry millionaire Geoffrey Levett stop dead when she begins receiving snapshots of a man who could be her husband--if he hadn't been killed at war five years before. When Meg's old friend, the charming and erudite Albert Campion, takes on this case of perplexing identity, he enters a spine-chilling manhunt in London's sinister underworld.

    The Tiger in the Smoke14
    3,5

  15. The Beckoning Lady

    • 244bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen

    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.

    The Beckoning Lady15
    3,9

  16. Hide My Eyes

    A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her `a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer.

    Hide My Eyes16
    3,8

  17. The China Governess

    • 272bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen

    Timothy Kinnit had everything - wealth and good looks. Then it happened: he learned he was adopted. His search in London for the facts of his birth involves a tale of evacuation and a mentally deficient youth, drags up a murder and sets off another, before Albert Campion can reveal the truth.

    The China Governess17
    3,6

  18. Classic Crime: The Mind Readers

    • 256bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen

    The ancient hamlet of Saltey, once the haunt of smugglers, now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter… and someone in town is willing to terrorise, murder, and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves. When a transistor thought to be the key to telepathic communication is found, Albert Campion is called to sort fact from fiction. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are others who will kill to get hold of it. Private detective Albert Campion faces a challenge as deadly as any in his career. All books in the Albert Campion series are standalone titles and can be read in any order.

    Classic Crime: The Mind Readers18
    3,1

  19. Cargo of Eagles

    • 217bladzijden
    • 8 uur lezen

    Albert Campion and his American friend visit Saltey, an old pirate's town on the English coast now plagued with modern-day disreputable characters, to unravel a murder connected to a hundred-year-old legend and a missing treasure

    Cargo of Eagles19
    4,0

  20. Mr Campion's Farthing

    • 320bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen

    Inglewood Turrets, an expensive anachronism in the leafy outskirts of North London is a cross between St Pancreas Station and Holloway Gaol, and the house where the formidable Miss Charlotte Cambric recreates Victorian elegance for foreign culture-vultures. Vassily Kopeck, the half-Russian, half-Polish physicist and an 'attache of sorts', disappears as effectively as a cat who turns a corner in a London fog after a visit to The Turrets - and thereby becomes a wanted man. Then Felix Perdreau, the flamboyant rare book dealer and friend of Kopek also goes missing. Making a case for Albert Campion, who cannot resist a mystery?

    Mr Campion's Farthing20

  21. Mr. Campion's Quarry

    • 240bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen

    refined, cultured upper class dabbling in sleuthing and darned good at it. The kind of book to be read after dinner with a fire going in the fireplace, a glass of sherry and a biscuit or two. A delightful British whodunit whether read or watched.

    Mr. Campion's Quarry21
    3,5

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