Author : Margery Margery Allingham
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Page : 107 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
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Book Description
Flowers for the Judge was published in 1936, and it was the seventh of Margery Allingham's novels to feature Albert Campion. In past podcasts, I have reviewed a couple of her earlier novels, noting that they were really more action stories than detective novels. Flowers for the Judge is different. Allingham's writing is more mature - and Mr. Campion seems more mature, abandoning a great deal of the regrettable fatuity that makes up his character in the early novels. Campion is called into this case quite early - after the disappearance but before the body is discovered. When it is found, suspicion and a great deal of circumstantial evidence points at the victim's cousin, a young man who is clearly in love with the victim's widow. The cousin, Mike Wedgwood, is arrested, and the police are quite satisfied.