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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Meg Elginbrodde, a young war widow, receives photographs that suggest her husband is still alive so she enlists the help of her cousin, Albert Campion to investigate. The man in the photographs turns out to be a known felon, ‘Duds’ Morrison. Meg’s jealous fiancé, Geoffrey Levitt, accosts Duds but both men are attacked by a criminal gang posing as a rackety street band. Meanwhile, Meg’s father, Canon Avril, a gentle priest, wonders how Duds came to be wearing Meg’s husband’s coat. A tortuous trail leads through the oppressive London fog to Jack Havoc, a violent murderer. Set in a dingy and damaged post war London this is Allingham’s most sophisticated novel which examines the very nature of evil. With an introduction by the New York Times- bestselling author of detective fiction, Sara Paretsky. Read more
Publisher : Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication date : May 16, 2017
Edition : Main Market Ed.
Language : English
Print length : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1509826785
ISBN-13 : 80
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 4.05 x 0.85 x 6.2 inches
Book 14 of 21 : The Albert Campion Mysteries
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Top Amazon Reviews
"The fog was like a saffron blanket soaked in ice-water. It had hung over London all day and at last was beginning to descend. The sky was yellow as a duster and the rest was granular black, overprinted in grey and lightened by occasional slivers of bright fish colour as a policeman turned in his wet cape." I can count on one hand the times I've rated books five stars in the three years I've been writing these reviews. This book gets the whole galaxy for the plotting, the originality of the story, the atmosphere of the time and place, the characters and, finally, the intelligence and wisdom of the author herself. I promise myself I will read the whole body of her work, or at least the entire Campion series. One of these books is worth ten of the books I read from lesser writers.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016 by Shirley Y. Thomas
I love Golden Age Mysteries. I own most if not all of the works of Sayers, Christie, Marsh, Heyer and Carr. Margery Allingham was never a favorite of mine primarily because in her early novels her hero, Albert Campion, seemed a pale imitation of Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Wimsey. However, it is clear in this later book that, like Wimsey, Campion has matured and the character “tics” that annoyed me are gone. For some reason, I’d gotten away from the Golden Age and lately have been reading Victorian and modern mysteries. But “Tiger” is one of the books on HRF Keating’s list of 100 best mysteries that I hadn’t read so when a friend pointed out this kindle book for $2.99 I picked it up. A few pages into “The Tiger in the Smoke”, I remembered why Golden Age was my genre of preference. Most of what I’ve read over the past couple of years pales in comparison. First of all the “cozy mystery thriller” label on this is completely misleading. Undoubtedly, some Golden Age mysteries, especially some from Christie and Heyer, qualify as cozies but “Tiger” is very atmospheric with tension that can be oppressive at times. It also had more (off stage) violence and threat of violence than is common in a “cozy”. Like most Golden Age mysteries it is filled with interesting, quirky characters and a bizarre seemingly senseless little puzzle that is actually complex and gradually revealed. If anything it reminded much more of John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson than a cozy. Like Carr, this story does not focus on Campion (in fact he is not the driving force in the story) but is told from the varying perspectives of different characters. Allingham does create some very ornate prose which some modern readers may not enjoy. It wasn’t constant but it was noticeable. An example: “Some resourceful policeman had unearthed one of the old naphtha flares which are the only real answer to fog. Like a livid plume, it spat and hissed above the heads of a knot of men in the chasm, its vigorous smoke trail mingling with the other vapours, making Rembrandtesque clouds above them.” “The Tiger in the Smoke” is a nice Golden Age mystery that I enjoyed a lot. I’m looking forward to another Allingham on Keating’s list “More Work for the Undertaker”.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015 by JZS
This novel by Margery Allingham shows what a versatile author she was. Even though I think of her as writing fairly stereotyped English amateur detective novels, almost cozy mysteries in fact, this one most certainly does not fit this description. I would characterize it as more of a thriller than a detective story. A number of my friends have told me that this is one of their favorite Campion novels. I finished it a week or so ago and I still can't even decide if I liked it or not. It is a tense, suspenseful, novel that portrays extremes of good and evil. It is so well written, that I found it hard to stop reading, even though the sense of menace was so very pronounced at times that I wasn't entirely sure if I really wanted to know what happened next. The setting is fogbound London, and the Tiger is the evil protagonist. Albert Campion, who is Allingham's series detective is less visible in this book than he is Allingham's other books, but he is present, along with a number of other familiar characters.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016 by Grandma
From the very beginning to the simple ending the story is masterfully understated. No histrionics or bravura just a fully fleshed out picture of England after World War 2 as the back drop for a carefully crafted story peopled by men of character and women of virtue who quietly triumph over a force of evil. Quite a delightful read.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024 by J. A. Butler
I can't remember who recommended The Tiger In The Smoke by Margery Allingham. Whoever you are, thank you. Allingham began writing in the 1920's, post world war 1. This book is brilliant although some will find it dated and a bit stiff. I found it superb. Allingham is a master of her craft. She layers in the complex backstory that lies at the heart of the ongoing mystery bit by bit as though pulling the reader through the dense fog that smothers London. A fog So intrusive and menacing it becomes a character in the story. The righteously good battle a scurrilous gang of misfits, bonded by a crime committed on the battlefield , to save an innocent young widow from evil.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2018 by Ellen Kirschman
A very interesting detective novel for Margery Allingham. Less immersed in superficial characters with quirky personalities and she is more preoccupied with irony and interior monologs; especially standing out are those of the villains. Allingham shows herself to be a serious writer with the ability to draw an insightful view of a damaged human being beyond the help of even the most well intentioned minister. A villain who is ultimately done in by his own blind ambition. The fog that blinds the good characters, who ultimately see the light, metaphorically permanently blinds the villaimous tiger. The only flaw in this work is that Campion is just about none existent in the working of the plot.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2017 by Margaret LeRoy
Albert Campion and the police are involved in a manhunt for a hard boiled and ruthless criminal. The story is desperate, but softened by characters we know and love: Albert, Amanda,their young child, as well as new and sympathetic characters: Meg, her father , her fiancé- all wonderfully complex and endearing.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024 by Satisfied Customer
A thriller rather than a mystery. If you are new to Allingham's Campion stories this is not a good place to start, partly because it is so atypical of the series and also because the array of minor characters that flit through the pages, and which will be familiar to readers of previous Campion books, can be rather bewildering for the newcomer. Written in 1952, the story is interesting for its insight into aspects of life in post-war London. Some of the references, and much of the slang, will be lost on young, and non-British, readers. It will also perpetuate the myth of London being permanently fogbound. Present-day London hardly ever experiences fog, but in the fifties, when it was still an industrial city and suffered heavy smogs, it was commonly known as 'The Smoke', hence the book's title. In truth, the author's grasp of underworld culture is somewhat shaky. She doesn't get the language or the behavior quite right. She was from the rural English midlands and from a different social class, so this is very much an outsider's view. The intriguing story and the intense drama are what make this book worthwhile. It is well written and one episode, Lugg's driving through the fog, is hilarious. He wonders aloud at one stage whether he is approaching a traffic island or the side of a bank building. The villain, Havoc, is memorable. Oddly, there is no one, central hero. That role is shared between three or four characters. Campion himself is incidental. My one complaint about the plot is that it relies on a very remarkable coincidence, which is something that always undermines credibility. But if you are willing to accept it (and remarkable coincidences do occur in real life) then you can relax and enjoy this first-rate thriller. If you do enjoy "Tiger in the Smoke", you might also like Graham Greene's "Brighton Rock", which features the razor gangs of pre-war Brighton, and which has an equally memorable villain.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2003 by Peter Reeve