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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
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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
As always, loved the Campion mystery by Allingham. She’s a marvelous writer! Witty fun dialogue, characterization and the usual twist at the end, are all hallmarks of her writing. This is a pivotal book introducing Campions sister and references to his family of origin status. Yet, I must warn perspective readers! Two reasons caused this book to be reviewed as 3 star rather than 5, both representative of the the English early to mid-20th century timeframe in which this book was written. Dialogue is often littered with English slang words whose meaning Americans must guess at. Luckily, Kindle has a Search option to enlighten the reader. Second, and the more troubling (in this book especially), some dialogue sequences are distastefully written with racial slurs and innuendos that would not be tolerated if written today. Again, the timeframe in which this series was written reflects the general white upper-class mind-set more than others of Allingham had written. I found one scene so distasteful that I had to close the book for awhile to get the taste of it out of my mouth. Remembering the timeframe and refocusing on the storyline and richness of the general writing drew me back to finish the book. If a reader cannot digest and expel these racial slurs , I recommend reading other Campion books by Allingham. If however, readers can separate themselves from these references, I highly recommend this book. Regardless, I highly recommend the series written by a marvelously talented and enjoyable author.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2018 by Lana B
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
Complicated and thrilling til the end. Such a lot of characters and all might be a killer. Three murders, family, friends, business partners, children, lovers, inventors, old acquaintances, detectives, hoodlums, foreigners, models, dress makers, police, Scotland yard, and more; this story has it all. Good hunting. I loved it!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015 by Kindle Customer Kathy
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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.
Albert Campion’s Sister Val, a haute couture fashion designer, falls in love with the very masculine owner of an airplane factory. Actress Georgia Wells falls in love with the same man, and, being charming, magnetic and beautiful, has no difficulty luring the fellow away from Val. Georgia is lucky in love. The men in her life die conveniently whenever she falls in love with a new man. It’s the peculiar death of Georgia’s current husband that first interests Campion. He brings all his powers of intelligence and deviousness to bear on this case, because his sister Val is under some suspicion. First published in 1938, The Fashion in Shrouds has all the features of great Golden Age Crime fiction — puzzling deaths, colorful characters, heartrending romantic entanglements, lugubrious police inspectors on the wrong track, and a gentleman sleuth wearing himself out in the pursuit of a dangerously clever murderer. The intricate plot reveals Campion to be as good an actor in his way as Georgia, and it’s almost the death of him...
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Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2018 by Patto