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Just finished "Mystery Mile" by Margery Allingham, the 2nd book in the "Campion" series (actually the first book proper: Campion was a minor character in the first book, "The Crime at Black Dudley").
Crossing the Atlantic on the luxurious liner Elephantine are an American judge, Crowdy Lobbett, and his children. A number of people around Judge Lobbett have been murdered, and he is said to be fleeing to England for safety. Apparent buffoon Albert Campion offers the family sanctuary with his friends in remote Suffolk, but a local commits suicide, the Judge vanishes, and another disappearance follows soon after. What is the Judge's mysterious secret? How was he kidnapped from a remote maze? Can Campion and his friends get to the bottom of things before it's too late?
More of an adventure story than a detective novel in the "classical" tradition. Very enjoyable.
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