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bimo

Margery Allingham's Campion Series

Feb 05, 2006 10:53

I'm currently undergoing a "Classic Mystery and Crime" phase, albeit one restricted to a very specific author, the amazing Margery Allingham, who sometimes gets credited as one of the "Four Queens of British Crime" together with Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Dorothy L. Sayers ( Read more... )

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Taking my time :-) cavendish February 5 2006, 21:25:18 UTC

Finally, after having corrected and packed and stapled all that there was to correct and pack and staple; after having fed the fish and prepeared some bread for myself for school tomorrow; I have now decided to call it a day and turn to some nicer things.

Which is reading your lj-entry while having a nice glas of red whine :-)

Your entry makes me even more intersted in the books and its main characters than I already was. Now I woder: Which kind of book will I get? The treasure hunt? The thriller? And which Campion, so to speak: The reluctant or the self confident one?

Well, lets see :-)

For now, I will be the reluctant teacher hero having survived another day ;-) signing off :-)

*waves*

And again: Thanks for all the help you offer (And for everything else ;-)) )

Frank

neuralclone February 6 2006, 01:54:38 UTC

Yes, it's an intriguing little series, isn't it? And undeservedly neglected these days (unlike Christie and Sayers who are reprinted on a regular basis).

bimo February 7 2006, 09:42:05 UTC

Yes, it's an intriguing little series, isn't it? And undeservedly neglected these days (unlike Christie and Sayers who are reprinted on a regular basis).

Here in Germany Margery Allingham doesn't even fall into the "neglected" category but is virtually unknown, in contrast to Christie and Sayers.

I discovered the Campion series only by accident, while browsing Ebay for some Dr. Who/5th Doctor related material. The TV version starring Peter Davison as Campion popped up in my search, I got curious enough to purchase some of the episodes and got hopelessly addicted ;-)

From that point it was only a small step to acquiring the individual novels. Thankfully quite a lot of them are quite easily obtainable as used copies, via amazon.co.uk. And there is also a British publishing house called Vintage, which seems to be in the process of reprinting most of the series ( ... )