Police at the Funeral

An Albert Campion Mystery

By: Margery Allingham

Narrated by: David Thorpe

When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancee of an old college friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he little expects the mysterious spate of death and dangers that follows among the bizarre inhabitants of Socrates Close, Cambridge. He and Stanislaus Oates must tread carefully, and battle some complex family dynamics, to solve the case.

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

©2013 Margery Allingham (P)2013 Audible Ltd

Critic reviews

"Allingham's work is always of the first rank" ( New York Times)

"Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world" ( Tatler)

"Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered" ( P.D. James)

Finally, a mystery

This is the fourth Campion book. It is also the first one that is truly a mystery. Despite a stereotypical cast of English eccentrics, the plot is engaging and the solution worthy of Christie.

Excellent narrator

Really fortunate to have discovered this great series. Full marks to an excellent performance by the narrator.

Superb Campion

Best of them all, I believe! Excellent narration, a wonderfully convoluted but not improbable plot.

Delightful plot twists!

How did Agatha Christie become more famous (at least in the 21st C) than M. Allingham?

Excellent Plot

Clever plot with a setting in Cambridge or Trumpington where I lived for 20 years so that gave it an extra interest for me. even involved Water each and the Leys School from my past. I used to ride bicycles not walk or car