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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?

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"The queen of crime writing’s golden age" (Daily Telegraph)

"Always of the elect, Margery Allingham now towers above them" (Observer)

"Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered" (P.D. James)

"Don't start reading these books unless you are confident that you can handle addiction" (Independent)

"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light" (Agatha Christie) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN : B00HDHRVT6
Publisher : Vintage Digital (7 May 2015)
Language : English
File size : 1541 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 274 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : B08K41SZMT

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kathleenmavorneen

Four Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 17 May 2016

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It was quite good with a good story.

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Excellent example of the golden age of Mystery

Reviewed in Australia on 18 February 2018

All the elements are there, the gathering of the characters all meeting in the old mansion. Pass the ritual knife around in the dark. Secret passages and car chases.

What more could one ask for?

Two surprising tings. First Albert Campion is not the main focus and it seems that Margery Allingham created him as a secondary character that later in his career becomes the main focus. Second is the answer to the main riddle popes out of the closet at the last moment. I suspected the butler and so will you.

I have to admit that I watched the Camion video series before reading the book.

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Portland Bill

Dull plot which seems to go nowhere

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2018

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I love vintage murder mysteries and was keen to read the Campion stories from the beginning, but this book was disappointing and put me off reading the rest of the series. It has a rambling, implausible plot which seems to go round in circles without developing. Campion is a minor character and the mystery is solved by someone else, and the solution to the murder seems to be tacked on at the end and has no relevance to the rest of the story. People scrambling through secret passages which don't lead to anywhere exciting, or anywhere that moves the plot forward, gets boring quickly. I lost interest in the plot and the characters well before halfway through but made myself finish it because I'd paid for it. It put me off reading any more of Allingham's books and the only mystery I could find in it was why it's considered a crime classic.

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Janetti

Very disappointed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2018

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I've read many Margery Allingham's stories with Albert Campion and enjoyed them. I discovered this one, which is the first in which Albert appears, so looked forward to reading it too. I'm afraid that if I had read this one first I probably wouldn't have bothered with the others. Albert plays only a minor part, a part which is hard to understand. He begins to unfold as a foolish non-descript, then a tough hero, then disappears completely having accomplished nothing in the unravelling of the mystery. The other characters are quite entertaining if you enter into the spirit and the time of writing, but the plot is ridiculous and completely unbelievable. There are many holes in the plot and the actions of the gung-ho group of young men became too absurd for me. I was not surprised at the revelation of the murderer at the end.

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G. M. Sidoli

Albert Campion's first foray into the world of detecting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2020

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A promising start to the career of Albert Campion, the amateur sleuth of Margery Allingham's detective stories. I read it as an exercise in curiosity. I have to say that considering this was published nearly 100 years ago it holds up pretty well. The story is a bit improbable and some of the language is very dated but the characters were interesting and had a certain depth. The most surprising thing was what a minor role Campion had in the story. It is worth reading and I shall definitely more books by this author.

J. Brain

Humour, action and Cluedo-esque characters bring mystery and an unexpected hero of the hour

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2015

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Margery Allingham lacks the subtlety of Christie but has a theatrical charm about her plots with their air of 'boys own' adventure story mixed with a stiff-upper-lip-ness that results in a quaintly English mystery that twists and turns like the corridors and hidey-holes of Black Dudley Mansion itself. Characters like Inspector Pillow and Colonel Coombe serve to give this story overtones of Cluedo-esque mystery and our hero turns out to be most unexpected and is so loveable and idiotic in equal measure that he ends up both solving the mystery and going on to become the star of a series of books and most deservedly so, in my humble opinion. I like Margery Allinghams writing, it has humour and a vaudevillian style to its progress that results In a good but not too taxing read. Many of her contemporaries wrote, as was the custom of the time with such verbosity, that the words almost prevent the story from emerging but not so the case with Allingham who is worth a try if you haven 't yet taken the plunge.

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S Riaz

The Crime at Black Dudley

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2013

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Published in 1929, this is the first Albert Campion mystery. My introduction to Campion came through a later book and, disliking reading books out of order, I found that a confusing and difficult read. However, as I enjoy Golden Age detective fiction, I determined to give Margery Allingham another try and to read the first in the series – even though I know that the book has mixed reactions. In a way, that is because this is not a traditional mystery; it has a story set in a traditional country weekend, but then descends into something of a romp concerning criminal gangs, secret passages and only has Albert Campion as a minor character.

Indeed, much of the action is told from the point of view of Dr George Abbershaw, one of the guests of a weekend party at the house of Colonel Gordon Coombe, whose nephew, Wyatt Petrie, organises groups of young people to visit and amuse his uncle. The house is a somewhat forbidding setting for a party, but Abbershaw is more interested in a young lady called Margaret Oliphant than the location. Still, romantic considerations aside, there are a mix of guests, including a keen Cambridge rugger blue, a young doctor, a couple of rather sinister guests of the Colonel and a ‘silly ass’ called Albert Campion, who nobody seems to have invited…

When Petrie tells of a family ritual involving the fifteenth century ‘Black Dudley Dagger,’ the guests agree to play along and, when the lights come back on, it seems that there has been a tragedy. Worst still, the Colonel’s rather unpleasant, and unfriendly, guests, claim to have lost something of great importance and, if it is not returned, there will be consequences. Despite appearing as a rather inoffensive, unintelligent character, Campion turns out to be very useful in the following crisis, as the guests find themselves prisoners in the isolated house, unable to escape. However, this actually turns out to be a murder mystery, wrapped in a tale of criminal gangs. Overall, I am glad I read this first book and would certainly like to read on and discover more about Albert Campion.

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