Category Archives: Albert Campion

THE CASE OF THE LATE PIG (1937) by Margery Allingham

Posted on 22 March 2013 by

This is Margery Allingham’s shortest Albert Campion novel (my Penguin TV tie-in edition, featured on the right, runs to 138 pages) but it certainly packs in plenty of incident with the sleuth battling problems on the domestic and romantic front … Continue reading →

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TRAITOR’S PURSE (1941) by Margery Allingham

Posted on 5 October 2012 by

This is an Albert Campion novel like no other. Margery Allingham had introduced the character in the late 1920s and deployed him in a broad range of books, alternating between whodunits like Police at the Funeral (1931), Death of a … Continue reading →

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