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The Crime at Black Dudley

An Albert Campion Mystery

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The Crime at Black Dudley

By: Margery Allingham
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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Summary

When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.

About the author: Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. Her first novel was published when she was 17. In 1929 she published The Crime at Black Dudley and introduced the character who was to become the hallmark of her writing - Albert Campion.

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The story is quite nice, but there are a few old fashioned stereotypes of women which I find pretty hard to stomach (women being referred to as "girls"; woman getting hysterics and turning to men for help all the time, etc)
The reader is also a bit challenging. He uses a sing-song intonation at times which I find annoying and some of the characters have a very unpleasant screechy voice. Even if the character is described to have an unpleasant voice, the description is enough for us readers to get the picture, we don't need to be dragged through the full unpleasant experience.

Ok to pass the time

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FROM Allingham or was it the other way round. Either way a man lay dead.

Black Dudley so did Niago Marsh take the idea

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I really enjoyed this book, the story was well told, and interesting. Well narrated by David Thorpe, he made the story come alive. An interesting conclusion to the whole affair.

Fascinating story

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I was worried I would not like this as Campion not main character. But I should not have worried. I wish I had read it first as it's sets up the quirky nature of Campion and would have made the rest in the series her to follow. A good story, narration and topsy turvy murder mystery. Well worth my credit.

Wish I had read this first

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Campion in this book is just annoying. The story is OK and the narrator captures the author's description of his "falsetto" voice, and, despite knowing that is of its age, I found Campion himself simply silly and irksome.

Odd beginning for Camipion

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