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Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia's best friend just happens to be Valentine, a top couturière and Campion's sister. In order to protect Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail and ruthless murder.... Read more
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Valentine Feris is a designer of one of London’s top fashion houses. She finds herself falling in love with the owner of an airplane manufacturing company, until stage actress Georgia Wells manages to mesmerize the man. Wells has something of a history: her first fiancé disappeared and his remains only found very recently. He had killed himself. She’s married to something of an obnoxious aristocrat, whom she met while she was engaged. And now she’s on to Val’s boyfriend. This is a Margery Allingham mystery novel, and you might expect Georgia to become a murder victim. Instead, her husband is killed, and superficial evidence points to Valentine and a case of a poisoning meant for Georgia going wrong. Fortunately for Valentine (nicknamed Val), her brother is Albert Campion, the amateur detective known for his ability to solve difficult cases. In fact, it is Campion who finds the body of the unfortunate suicide. Allingham’s “The Fashion in Shrouds” was originally published in 1938, and it is just as entertaining and intriguing today as it was almost 80 years ago. The author wrote numerous mysteries and other works, and what’s interesting about this one is how much attention is paid to the descriptions of the characters. At times, the narrative becomes a series of almost psychological character studies. We get inside the characters’ heads in ways I haven’t seen in the previous Allingham novels I’ve read. Campion finds himself solving a nest of crimes connected to the suicide and murder, while desperately trying to keep his sister from being arrested. He moves from the glamour of high society fashion and hotels to the low life of Soho dives. And he eventually finds himself in personal danger. “The Fashion in Shrouds” is an excellent, satisfying mystery, showing Allingham at the height of her writing power.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2017 by Glynn Young
Allingham's prose is delightful and her plot is full of satisfactory twists; but the people who inhabit her imaginary world are suprficial, and for the most part trivial. Having read later works in her series I know she can produce lifelike human beings. i can't figure out if that techniques is underdeveloped at this point, or if she really is describing a world populated by shallow plutocrats, and if so, why.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2015 by avidreader
Format: Kindle
Readers who delight in looking up archaic words will love this rather long tour of upper class 1930s England. Allingham had some strong ideas of right and wrong and was a keen observer of shades In between.
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2026 by Karen J. Dahood
Format: Kindle
Margery Allinghsm does it again. I could not put it down. The development of love between Albert Campion and Amanda Fitton. AND a mind bending cast of characters and a clever series of murders.
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2025 by Rosemary Vaughn
This is the 10th Campion mystery I've read, and at this point have decided that Allingham, like any author who has to crank out the material, has some good stuff and some not so good stuff - they seem to alternate. This isn't one of her best - in fact, it's pretty awful for such a good writer. The plot is good, with some deft reasoning and nice twists, but I had trouble deciding if she was writing a mystery or some kind of confused meditation on gender relations. At times it seemed as if she were writing two different books and attempted to tie them together with a rabbit from a hat towards the end. Like many good authors, she appears to have realised the gross over-writing later, and I would like to read the re-write with the plot unearthed from a lot of the clatter-talk and cumbersome psychology, and restored to her usual good, taut observations. As for the proposal scene, I'm old enough to recall the unfortunate position of women up through the 60s (and to have suffered it myself) and the simmering and finally outspoken frustration of my mother and grandmother who had experienced the 30s (and 50s). Having read enough of Allingham, enjoyed her strong female characters, including a wonderful villain in The Gyrth Chalice Mystery, Great-Aunt Caroline and that nutty bunch in Police at the Funeral, the brilliant Amanda Fitton and a host of others; and given the fact that Allingham made her living as a sharp-eyed novelist, if that scene wasn't a screed of bitter irony on her part, I don't know what is. Three stars because the plot was still good and there was still some trenchant writing, and an interesting look into the 'hospitality industry.'
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Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2016 by Thinker
Format: Kindle
I’m rushing through her Campion mysteries, but this has been as complex an analysis of human nature as I’ve come across. Ms Allingham is brilliant.
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2026 by deirdre a.
Margery Allingham wrote a novel of women who worked and accomplished things before they were all working. I read her as a teenager a long time ago and loved the interactions of characters who were liberated, doing what they loved and respected and loved for it. Maybe they are dated now, but I must say it didn't disturb me. I enjoyed it, enjoyed the flow of the novel, an art that is lost these days. It is romantic in that manner of England between the wars, rather mad, but charming and kind of chipper even in the worst moments. I read it to remember a place where times were worse and everyone carried on, and ended the book in a more hopeful place.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016 by Movie Maven