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(0)Youngman Carter
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'If a man is likely to be murdered you can't just stand by and do nothing. Or can you?'
Inglewood Turrets, an expensive anachronism in the leafy outskirts of North London is a cross between St Pancreas Station and Holloway Gaol, and the house where the formidable Miss Charlotte Cambric recreates Victorian elegance for foreign culture-vultures.
Vassily Kopeck, the half-Russian, half-Polish physicist and an 'attaché of sorts', disappears as effectively...
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Albert Campion mysteries volume 18
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In this, Ms. Allingham's last novel, the action revolves around Saltey, for centuries a hidey-hole for all manner of villains. Astonishingly, it is the early 1960s, and Saltey, like many English coastal towns, is being over-run by teenage gangs. But that's not why Albert Campion -- now, really astonishingly, in late middle-age -- has persuaded Lugg to take up residence. His interest lies in part with the just-out-of-prison thief who has (in time-honored...
