MYSTERY MILE

BLACK PLUMES

Robert is mismanaging the gallery owned by the Ivory family, and trying to get Frances Ivory to marry his associate. When Robert is found dead in a cupboard a file of family secrets and hatreds comes to light.

THE CASE OF THE LATE PIG

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' body goes missing. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.

CRIME AT BLACK DUDLEY

George Abbershaw goes to stay at Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, intending to propose to Maggie Oliphant. His plans are thrown into disarray when a murder is committed.

THE FASHION IN SHROUDS

Albert Campion encounters adultery, blackmail and espionage in the glamorous world of entertainment and fashion designers. His sister, Valetine, becomes involved, as the beautiful actress at the heart of the story is her best friend.

FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE

The secrets of the respected publishing house of Barnabas Ltd. stretch back many years, but when one of the directors is found dead, locked in the company's strongroom, it's time for Albert Campion to set to work, puzzling out the mysteries.

MR CAMPION AND OTHERS

A baker’s dozen of cases, each putting Albert Campion through his paces. In this miscellany of villainy, our unconventional sleuth must contend with misbehaving debutantes, sinister smuggling rings, a Dowager Countess who’s not all that she seems, and an elderly Egyptologist indulging in some bad behaviour…

THE OAKEN HEART

Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy (‘Auburn’) when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens’ post and a First Aid centre, and Allingham herself became responsible for 275 East London evacuees in a rural community of just over 600. Commissioned by American publishing friends to recount what life was like, she began The Oaken Heart in the autumn of 1940, when the Battle of Britain gave way to the London Blitz. Bombs fell, even on the Essex countryside, and a German invasion was fully expected. She conceived her work as an honest letter to America. Places were given fictional names but otherwise she told it like it was, whether funny or painful. Unsentimental yet personal and rich in detail, this is an evocative first-hand account of day-to-day realities in a small community upended and terrified of the future – like so many villages of the time.

POLICE AT THE FUNERAL

Albert Campion is involved in trying to solve the murder of Andrew Faraday, but he soon suspects that a ruthless killer is set on removing all the Faradays one by one.

SWEET DANGER

Albert Campion poses as the Paladin of Averna in order to restore the tiny Baltic kingdom to its rightful owners and foil murderous industrialist, Brett Savanake. Things get rather rough as Savanake's heavies move in and up the pressure on Campion to solve the mystery before they do...