Police at a funeral
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Police at a funeral
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Margery Louisa Ellingham was an English writer who belonged to the "Golden Age of English Literature," recognized as the "Queen of Detective Fiction" alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. Ellingham is best known for her books about the gentleman detective Albert Campion. This volume contains the fourth, fifth, and sixth novels in her main series.
The members of a prim English family live in seclusion; beyond family ties, they are bound by a long-standing animosity. When one of them disappears, and a few days later, his body is fished out of a river, suspicion falls on the relative who last saw the deceased. Fearing unnecessary publicity and wishing to minimize his contact with the police, the head of the family entrusts Albert Campion with the investigation.
The obscure, microscopic kingdom of Averna, lost in the mountains, gains access to the Adriatic Sea after an earthquake, where oil is discovered. To prevent this lucrative morsel from falling into the wrong hands, Albert Campion must assume the role of "hereditary paladin" and obtain tangible evidence of Britain's right to this land.
John Lafcadio, who considered himself the greatest artist since Rembrandt, packed and sealed twelve of his paintings before his death, instructing that they be ceremoniously unveiled to the public, one on each anniversary of his passing. This eccentric ritual went smoothly seven times, but on the eighth, it was interrupted by a murder, which Campion must investigate.
The members of a prim English family live in seclusion; beyond family ties, they are bound by a long-standing animosity. When one of them disappears, and a few days later, his body is fished out of a river, suspicion falls on the relative who last saw the deceased. Fearing unnecessary publicity and wishing to minimize his contact with the police, the head of the family entrusts Albert Campion with the investigation.
The obscure, microscopic kingdom of Averna, lost in the mountains, gains access to the Adriatic Sea after an earthquake, where oil is discovered. To prevent this lucrative morsel from falling into the wrong hands, Albert Campion must assume the role of "hereditary paladin" and obtain tangible evidence of Britain's right to this land.
John Lafcadio, who considered himself the greatest artist since Rembrandt, packed and sealed twelve of his paintings before his death, instructing that they be ceremoniously unveiled to the public, one on each anniversary of his passing. This eccentric ritual went smoothly seven times, but on the eighth, it was interrupted by a murder, which Campion must investigate.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Classic Detective Fiction. Big Books