- Fiction, Mystery, Private investigators, Campion, albert (fictitious character), fiction
The imperious Great Aunt Caroline Faraday runs her old Cambridge residence like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact that it's 1931. Furniture and meals are heavy and elaborate, both motorcars and morning tea are forbidden on account of vulgarity.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Margery Allingham
- First published
- February 15, 2007
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Pub. for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran, Chivers Audio Books, Independently Published
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780553285062
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- Fiction
- Mystery
- Private investigators
- Campion, albert (fictitious character), fiction
- Great britain, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Private investigators, fiction
- Albert Campion (Fictitious character)
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- England, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, private investigators
- Fiction, mystery & detective, international crime & mystery
Margery Louise Allingham was an English writer of detective fiction, best remembered for her "golden age" stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. - Wikipedia
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