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More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion, Bk 13)
More Work for the Undertaker - Albert Campion, Bk 13 Author:Margery Allingham The Palinodes were dying to help each other... — ...out of this world. Two of them had already been disposed of when Mr. Campion arrived on the scene, but there were still three of the eccentric family left to confound him. — Mr. Campion knew any one of them was cler enough to get away with murder, but there where others on Apron street who had re... more »ason to hate them.
Was one of the Palinodes a killer - or were all the Palinodes potential victims?
The story takes place in Apron St., 'a strange decayed sort of neighbourhood', Dickensian London-at once entertaining and disquieting. Due to Allingham's unique gift for making place as vivid as character, the atmosphere is one of frozen in time, unchanged since the Victorian era. London is described as a series of villages in which the Palinodes act as squires. The characters are, as usual, quite wonderful, and the villains are true 'Margery Allingham evil.' Nobody does this quite like her.« less