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A review by destrier
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
3.0
The Campion series starts out well, with Campion as a sort of predecessor to Dr Who's wacky fixer. The characters are hard to keep straight at the opening dinner party, but it soon settles down well enough into a thriller with a background murder mystery.
Except for the very good [b:Traitor's Purse|383181|Traitor's Purse (Albert Campion Mystery #11)|Margery Allingham|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320487963s/383181.jpg|2815664], I was disappointed in the rest of the Campion series after this opening. Campion gets increasingly annoying and his banter irrelevant, to the point where you can simply skip over anything in quotation marks...which is 25% of each book.
Except for the very good [b:Traitor's Purse|383181|Traitor's Purse (Albert Campion Mystery #11)|Margery Allingham|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320487963s/383181.jpg|2815664], I was disappointed in the rest of the Campion series after this opening. Campion gets increasingly annoying and his banter irrelevant, to the point where you can simply skip over anything in quotation marks...which is 25% of each book.