Cover Synopsis
Will Albert Campion give up detection and turn respectable?
Perhaps… but after a series of coincidences, culminating in a letter from Lugg’s brother-in-law, Campion can no longer resist involvement in the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence, a dying convict’s last words and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile, the residents of Apron Street go about their nocturnal business… For Campion, finding the truth is a very dificult and dangerous undertaking.
First published by William Heinemann Ltd 1949
Penguin Edition – ISBN 0-14-008777-X
Cover art by Andrew Davidson
Interesting Fact
The edition sited above was the first unabridged edition of what is considered Margery Allingham’s blackest comedy to be published by Penguin in over twnety years.
