Albert Campion Mystery Collection 1-18 – Margery Allingham Free Audiobook

Written by Margery Allingham
Read by David Thorpe or Francis Matthews
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Unabridged

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Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham.

1. The Crime at Black Dudley (1929) (U.S. title: The Black Dudley Murder)
During a party game at a remote manor house named the Black Dudley, a man is stabbed to death, and some important documents have disappeared. Introduces Campion a little later in the story, as a pleasant hanger-on with a possibly shady side; the main character is a pathologist.

2. Mystery Mile (1930)
A retired American judge believes he has the key to identifying the real identity of a criminal mastermind. Campion, after saving his life, is hired to protect him and his children. Most of the book takes place at a country house on an island called Mystery Mile.

3. Look to the Lady (1931) (U.S. title: The Gyrth Chalice Mystery)
A shadowy club of art collectors intends to steal an ancient and sacred chalice from a family whose home, title, and livelihood depends upon keeping it in safely in its tower. This book opens with an attempt to locate the estranged and recently homeless heir to the family.

4. Police at the Funeral (1931)
Set in Cambridge (where Allingham attended boarding school as a teenager), a friend asks Campion to visit after the difficult and disliked younger son of a client disappears. Campion partners more officially with Stanislaus Oates, who has been sent to investigate the apparent murder of the missing son and is then kept on to investigate further attacks on the family. This book marks Allingham’s transition from thrillers to mystery novels.

5. Sweet Danger (1933) (U.S. title: Kingdom of Death or The Fear Sign)
In which Campion meets his future wife. The main task is to find objects that will prove that the young people have a legitimate claim on a property whose value has suddenly increased by the discovery of oil.

6. Death of a Ghost (1934)
A famous painter, before his death, left a dozen secret paintings to be unveiled, one per year, beginning 10 years after his death. Through this, he meant to provide more income to his widow. However, at the unveiling of the eighth painting, someone is murdered.

7. Flowers for the Judge (1936) (U.S. title: Legacy in Blood)
One of the senior members in a family business dies of carbon monoxide. The cause is also related to the unexplained disappearance of another family member 20 years before.

8. The Case of the Late Pig (1937)
In January, Campion attends the unexpected funeral of a bully, nicknamed Pig, that he went to school with; in June, he is confronted with Pig’s corpse, freshly killed.

9. Dancers in Mourning (1937) (U.S. title: Who Killed Chloe?)
Campion is brought in to investigate a series of threatening pranks involving a group of actors and finds himself falling in love with a married woman.

9.5 The Man with the Sack (Christmas Special)
Faced with an invitation he can’t refuse, Albert Campion is spending Christmas with the Turretts at Pharaoh’s Court, along with the Welkins and Mike Peters, a young man trying to shake off his father’s reputation. But when Santa Claus is implicated in a burglary, Campion’s skills are put to use.

10. The Fashion in Shrouds (1938)
This book has elements of a thriller, a detective story, and a psychological novel. Fake engagements, secret weddings, jealous spouses, and broken hearts appear in this book, which introduces Campion’s sister as a fashion designer.

11. The Traitor’s Purse (1941) (U.S. title: The Sabotage Murder Mystery)
Campion, who gets married during this book, experiences amnesia during this book, which causes an apparent change in personality. The first war-time book, Campion is unable to remember the important information and unable to find Stanislaus Oates, the only person in Scotland Yard who knows the critical secret.

12. The Coroner’s Pidgin (1945) (U.S. title: Pearls Before Swine)
Campion is on his way home from the war for the first time in three years, and his attempt to catch a train out of London is delayed by the discovery of a dead body put in his bed while he takes a bath. Ultimately, he is unable to leave town until after he solves a series of art thefts.

13. More Work for the Undertaker (1948)
The book focuses on Apron Street, an isolated neighbourhood in London. Going “up Apron street” has become a byword for a criminal vanishing. This proves to be done by the Bowels family, the undertakers of the title. More sinister proves to be the effort of the local banker to eliminate the eccentric Palinode family, which has inherited shares of stock once thought worthless. The banker proves also to be the moving force behind the service the Bowels family runs for criminals.

14. The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)
Called the finest of the Campion mysteries and her best book.
Meg Elginbrodde is a young war widow whose husband, Martin Elginbrodde, was presumed killed during the D-Day landings and who is now engaged to marry Geoffrey Levett. As their wedding date nears, she begins receiving mysterious photographs that suggest her first husband is still alive. As a thick and overwhelming pea soup fog begins to descend upon London, she meets with London Police Inspector Charlie Luke and her cousin, the detective Albert Campion, to find an individual who claims to know her first husband’s whereabouts. Meg appears to recognise a man disembarking from a train as her husband, but when apprehended the man is revealed to be a recently paroled convict called “Duds” Morrison who has somehow acquired an old, distinctive coat that belonged to her first husband. Duds is arrested but soon released without charge.

15. The Beckoning Lady (1955) (U.S. title: The Estate of the Beckoning Lady)
Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party a murder is discovered. It falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.

16. Hide My Eyes (1958) (U.S. title: Tether’s End or Ten Were Missing)
An old-fashioned bus with two elderly passengers visible through its windows parks in a London street and its driver covertly enters an adjacent building with a gun to meet with a moneylender. Several months later, independent detective Albert Campion meets with Detective Charlie Luke, who has connected the missing moneylender to several murders in the same neighborhood but lacks evidence apart from a witness who saw the bus, which may have been used to move the body. The police have been unsuccessful tracing the vehicle and its two elderly passengers.

17. The China Governess (1962)
Timothy Kinnit is trying to elope with Julia, but the question of his origins as a wartime refugee baby stand between them and their future. What does the “Turk Street Mile”, once the wickedest street in London but now redeveloped after wartime bombing, have to do with the mystery? Can Albert Campion and the recently widowed Superintendent Charles Luke find the answer and discover who wants it kept a secret?

18. The Mind Readers (1965)
Canon Avril is looking forward to hosting Albert Campion and his wife Lady Amanda for half-term, with their nephew Edward, and his cousin Sam. But strange things are happening at the electronics establishment on a remote island on the east coast where Sam’s father works, and when the boys arrive at Liverpool Street Station an attempt is made to kidnap them. Then Edward goes missing, and Campion and DS Charles Luke find themselves caught up in a mystery, unexpectedly helped by a certain Thomas T. Knapp, a disreputable old acquaintance.