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Originally Posted by CRussel
The first of the actual Albert Campion books by Margery Allingham - Mystery Mile. (He appears in The Crime at Black Dudley, but isn't really the central character yet.)
I've seen the BBC presentations of these books, and they're very good. But the books themselves are even better. What a delight to read, I'm very much looking forward to reading the others.
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This is a wonderful witty, wacky, yet erudite series. "Black Dudley" is just plain odd. But the ensuing volumes have some great screwball type mysteries .... and the latter volumes in the series shifted to a more sinister psychological type of crime & criminal. Her last Campions were compared with Patricia Highsmith's writing - for creating sociopathic villains more interesting than the cops.