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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2015
- ISBN
- 9780727897664
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Severn House
ISBN-10
0727897667
ISBN-13
9780727897664
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202778464
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mr. Campion's Farewell
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Historical, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Publication Year
2015
Features
Large Type
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
An Albert Campion Mystery Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Ripley agreed to use the fragment to write a new Campion story. He's produced a whimsical, delightful, witty, entertaining book that's part Jeeves and Wooster, part Laurel and Hardy, and part Miss Marple. Charming and full of surprises, Ripley does an excellent job of expanding a story fragment that Allingham's husband, Pip Youngman Carter, began in 1969. Allingham fans will welcome the news that Severn has commissioned a follow- up, and newcomers will be inspired to seek out her work, Ripley is almost too successful in fulfilling the bespectacled detective's ploy of making himself an ineffectual nonentity. Only toward the end of this meandering, fitfully amusing, resolutely twee story does Campion become more than a sad echo of an earlier age.
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
823.912
Edition Description
Large Type / large print edition
Synopsis
When Albert Campion contemplates visiting his wayward niece in Carfax, Superintendent Charles Luke warns him that the seemingly-idyllic village isn't all it seems. And when a missing schoolteacher reappears after nine days, and Campion's car is "inadvertently" damaged - not to mention Campion himself - all signs point to this being true . . ., The Golden Age of British Detective Fiction The idyllic English village of Lindsay Carfax isn't run by the parish council, the rating authority, the sanitary inspector nor the local cops as you might suppose. The real bosses are the Carders - something to do with wool, four hundred years back. They wound stuff on cards, I suppose. But these boys are very fly customers - they're right on the ball. Boiled down, it comes to this; they're a syndicate who run this place - which makes a packet - with their own rules. One way and another they probably own most of it." Thus ruminated Superintendent Charles Luke to Albert Campion who was contemplating visiting his wayward artistic niece in Carfax. And when a missing schoolteacher reappeared after nine days, and Campion's car was "inadvertently" damaged, not to mention Campion himself, then all the signs were that not all was what it seemed. Campion himself plays the central role in this quintessentially British mystery, but there are appearances too from all of Margery Allingham's regular characters, from Luke to Campion's former manservant Lugg, to his wife Lady Amanda Fitton and others. The dialogue is sharp and witty, the observation keen, and the climax is thrilling and eerily atmospheric., The Golden Age of British Detective Fiction The idyllic English village of Lindsay Carfax isn't run by the parish council, the rating authority, the sanitary inspector nor the local cops as you might suppose. The real bosses are the Carders - something to do with wool, four hundred years back. They wound stuff on cards, I suppose. But these boys are very fly customers - they're right on the ball. Boiled down, it comes to this; they're a syndicate who run this place - which makes a packet - with their own rules. One way and another they probably own most of it." Thus ruminated Superintendent Charles Luke to Albert Campion who was contemplating visiting his wayward artistic niece in Carfax. And when a missing schoolteacher reappeared after nine days, and Campion's car was "inadvertently" damaged, not to mention Campion himself, then all the signs were that not all was what it seemed.Campion himself plays the central role in this quintessentially British mystery, but there are appearances too from all of Margery Allingham's regular characters, from Luke to Campion's former manservant Lugg, to his wife Lady Amanda Fitton and others. The dialogue is sharp and witty, the observation keen, and the climax is thrilling and eerily atmospheric.
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