“Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.” –_Sara Paretsky_
“Margaret Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world.” –_Tatler_
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Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his manservant, has brought him an unusual gift: the black silk nightdress-clad body of a dead woman, an apparent suicide. Wanting only to get away to a well-deserved rest, Campion must instead assist Detective Chief Inspector Oates and Superintendent Yeo in unravelling a tangled plot of deception and murder as the war draws to its conclusion.
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“Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.”
–_Sara Paretsky_
“Margaret Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world.”
–_Tatler_
Product Description
Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his manservant, has brought him an unusual gift: the black silk nightdress-clad body of a dead woman, an apparent suicide. Wanting only to get away to a well-deserved rest, Campion must instead assist Detective Chief Inspector Oates and Superintendent Yeo in unravelling a tangled plot of deception and murder as the war draws to its conclusion.