Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion #1) Please enter a suggested description. Limit the size to 1000 characters. However, note that many search engines truncate at a much shorter size, about 160 characters. Your suggestion will be processed as soon as possible. Author Bio for Allingham, Margery. Margery Allingham was a British writer detective stories during the "Golden Age" of crime writing. Her character, Albert Campion first appeared in 1929. She continued to develop his character and kept him alive right up until her own death in 1966. The final Campion novel was completed by her husband Philip Youngman Carter posthumously. Available Formats. FILE TYPE LINK UTF-8 text 20191060.txt HTML 20191060.html Epub 20191060.epub If you cannot open a .mobi file on your mobile device, please use .epub with an appropriate eReader. Mobi/Kindle 20191060.mobi Not all Kindles or Kindle apps open all .mobi files. PDF (tablet) 20191060-a5.pdf HTML Zip 20191060-h.zip. This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free. You may do whatever you like with this book, but mostly we hope you will read it. Here at FadedPage and our companion site Distributed Proofreaders Canada, we pride ourselves on producing the best ebooks you can find. Please tell us about any errors you have found in this book, or in the information on this page about this book. ‘The Crime at Black Dudley’ by Margery Allingham **** Vintage Crime Classics have just republished Margery Allingham’s first Albert Campion mystery, The Crime at Black Dudley. Published in 1929, the novel has not been printed in an English edition for over thirty years. Queen of crime Agatha Christie says that Allingham ‘stands out like a shining light’, and one cannot help but feel that her work is certainly due a resurgence. The premise of The Crime at Black Dudley is sure to appeal to lovers of crime, particularly those with a penchant for the more old-fashioned or ‘cosy’ mysteries. In the novel, a group of London’s ‘brightest young things’ accept an invitation to the Black Dudley mansion. ‘Skulduggery is most certainly afoot, and the party-goers soon realise that they’re trapped in the secluded house’. Albert Campion, one of the trapped, is on hand to assist the others in unravelling ‘the villainous plots behind their incarceration’. The way in which Allingham describes the house adds a feeling of foreboding almost immediately. She writes that, ‘Miles of neglected park-land stretched in an unbroken plain to the horizon and the sea beyond… In the centre of this desolation, standing in a thousand acres of its own land, was the mansion, Black Dudley; a great grey building, bare and ugly as a fortress’. The novel opens with the character of Dr George Abbershaw, a ‘minor celebrity’, who soon becomes one of the story’s protagonists. Whilst on holiday at Black Dudley, ‘Much to his own surprise and perplexity, he had fallen in love’ with a young woman named Margaret Oliphant. The weekend is being hosted by the owner of the house, Colonel Gordon Coombe, ‘an old invalid who liked the society of young people so much that he persuaded his nephew to bring a houseful of young folk down to the gloomy old mansion at least half a dozen times a year’. Centuries past at Black Dudley, a murder was committed with the house’s revered Dagger, which is still kept in pride of place. It is this ritual of sorts which is recreated by the characters on the first night. Of this act, Campion says, ‘”All this running about in the dark with daggers doesn’t seem to me healthy”‘, thus creating fissures within the body of the protagonists. Further peculiar goings-on such as this soon ensue, and serve to both deepen the mystery and add texture to the plot. One of the main points comes at the instance in which Colonel Coombe dies after a supposed heart attack. Questions about the situation being ‘fishy’ are almost immediately raised by many of the guests. As a doctor, Abbershaw goes to view the body under the guise of signing the cremation certificate. After doing so, ‘The fussy, pompous personality that he had assumed dropped from him like a cloak, and he became at once alert and purposeful. There were many things that puzzled him, but of one thing he was perfectly certain. Colonel Gordon Coombe had not died of heart disease’. Moreover, Abbershaw becomes ‘convinced that there were more secrets in Black Dudley that night than the old house had ever known. Secrets that would be dangerous if they were too suddenly brought to light’. Throughout, Allingham is both witty and amusing, whilst being rather to the point. Of Abbershaw’s falling in love, for example, she writes the following: ‘He recognised the symptoms at once and made no attempt at self-deception, but with his usual methodical thoroughness set himself to remove the disturbing emotion by one or other of the only two methods known to mankind – disillusionment or marriage’. The perceptions which Allingham gives of her characters too are very shrewd: ‘The man was an arresting type. He was white-haired, very small and delicately made… Under the sleek white hair which waved straight back from a high forehead his face was grey, vivacious, and peculiarly wicked’. The author is also a master at piecing together places and scenes, and second to none at building moments of tension or shifting experiences in just a single sentence: ‘The house-party which had seemed as large round the dinner-table now looked amazingly small in this cathedral of a room’. ISBN 13: 9781448216666. George Abbershaw is set for a social weekend at Black Dudley manor, hosted by Wyatt Petrie and his elderly uncle Colonel Combe, who enjoys the company of Bright Young Things. With Meggie Oliphant in attendance, George looks forward to the chance of getting closer to the girl he's set his heart on. But when murder spoils the party, the group soon find out that not only is there a killer in their midst, but the house is also under the control of notorious criminals. Trapped and at their mercy, George must find a way to thwart their diabolical plans while getting himself and Meggie out alive. Luckily for Abbershaw, among the guests is Albert Campion--a garrulous and affable party-crasher with a great knack for solving mysteries and interrogating suspects. The Crime at Black Dudley , first published in 1929, is the first novel to introduce Margery Allingham's amiable and much loved sleuth--Albert Campion. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Margery Allingham is ranked among the most distinguished and beloved detective fiction writers of the Golden Age alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. Allingham is J.K. Rowling's favorite Golden Age author and Agatha Christie said of Allingham that out of all the detective stories she remembers, Margery Allingham"'stands out like a shining light." "To Albert Campion has fallen the honor of being the first detective to feature in a story which is also by any standard a distinguished novel." - Observer. "Margery Allingham is notable for the energy and inventiveness of her writing." - P. D. James. "Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light." - Agatha Christie. The Crime At Black Dudley. Hmm, it looks like we don’t know much about this album. Can you help us out? Add artwork Start the wiki Tag this album. Do you have the artwork for this album? Add artwork. Do you know any background info about this album? Start the wiki. 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