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Dancers in Mourning

An Albert Campion Mystery

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Dancers in Mourning

By: Margery Allingham
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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Jimmy Sutane is London's favorite song-and-dance man, headlining at the Argosy Theatre, and beloved by all. Or almost all - someone has taken to playing increasingly nasty pranks. Albert Campion offers to poke around, but what he finds chez Sutane nearly overwhelms him. The far-from traditional household features a clutch of explosive egos, including a brooding 'genius musician,' and a melodramatic young actress who seems to delight in drawing others into her web of carefully groomed tragedy. Someone here is aiming to hang up Sutane's tap shoes on a permanent basis, and if Campion is to keep Jimmy dancing, he'll have to come up with some pretty fancy footwork of his own.

Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. Her first novel was published when she was seventeen. In 1929 she published The Crime at Black Dudley and introduced the character who was to become the hallmark of her writing - Albert Campion.

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"Miss Allingham's strength resides in the power of her characterizations, in her striking talent for painting vivid social backgrounds, and in her skillful use of language" ( Guardian)
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I love this book, but I find David Thorpe's narration not that great. Not as bad as some narrators of other series, but not a patch on Francis Matthews, so I wish all of the Campion books had been narrated by him.

Wish Francis Matthews narrated all Campion books

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Clever plot, brilliant characterisation and perfectly nuanced narration. Which is true for this whole series.

Brilliant

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