The Fashion in Shrouds: #10 Albert Campion (Volume 10) [Paperback]

Margery Allingham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 16, 2008 | Series: Albert Campion (Book 10)

The Fashion in Shrouds introduces Albert Campion?s sister, a talented young clothing designer with a roster of celebrated clients. The most celebrated among them is Georgia Wells, a glamorous actress who exemplifies the 1930s femme fatale. Georgia is vain, stupid, and self-centered, but men fly to her like moths to a flame. And like those moths, they often meet unhappy ends. Georgia?s fans chalk it up to her irresistibly dangerous allure, but Campion isn?t so sure. For one thing, he reckons, Georgia isn?t actually all that alluring. And for another, he suspects she might be just a bit more deliberately fatale than her public would like to believe.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem (December 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934609277
• ISBN-13: 978-1934609279
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #208,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Margery Allingham does it again!, February 24, 2009

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Connie J. Wehmeyer (Warwick NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fashion in Shrouds: #10 Albert Campion (Volume 10) (Paperback)

This is an Albert Campion mystery! How could it not be good!?! I thought I had collected the whole series and found this - what a TREAT! (Perhaps it was not released in the US until recently?) Anyway, as always with these books - an excellent story and fun characterizations!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The rest of the story, March 4, 2011

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This review is from: The Fashion in Shrouds: #10 Albert Campion (Volume 10) (Paperback)

This nicely published edition I bought from Amazon was an essential addition to my collection of Albert Campion novels. In it Allingham introduces Campion's sister and also we meet his future wife again after a gap of eight years (or so?).

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4.0 out of 5 stars A lovely vintage mystery, October 21, 2010

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Atheen M. Wilson "Atheen" (Mpls, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fashion in Shrouds: #10 Albert Campion (Volume 10) (Paperback)

I'm glad I decided to reread these books again; I read most of them when I was devouring the classics of the genre in the 1980's, and I'd forgotten how wonderfully well Margery Allingham writes. The Fashion in Shrouds is a terrific example.

This is one of the Albert Campion mystery series. It's set in the 1930's, though there is little that actually brings that era to mind. For those of you who don't care much for "dated" material, there is nothing jarring about the story. It could easily have happened today. For those of you who, like I, enjoy a historical ambiance, it can be a little disappointing. One can only say that the author wasn't aware that the period during which she wrote would be "sepia tinted" and "quaint" decades down the line! For either group of readers, if you want to see what the period was like, I'd recommend the Albert Campion BBC series, Campion - The Complete First Season, which illustrates the ambiance superbly.

The activity is somewhat disbursed, taking place at a high fashion designer's, at Amanda Fitten's home, at a fashionable hotel, at an airlines, etc. In short it's not a manor house mystery like those of Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Detective Story. The writing style is delightfully readable, though those who have been saturated in modern mysteries which tend to be almost all dialogue and no description may find it less to their liking. Description is vivid and creates definite visual images, and the vocabulary is extensive enough to be fluid rather than repetitious, yet it is not so vaunted as to be arch and faux, as though the author kept a thesaurus at her elbow. Dialogue is realistic, and while it partakes of some of the witty banter popular in literature and cinema of the time, it doesn't seem quite so over the top to the modern ear as some products of the same vintage do. The tale is well plotted, with clues carefully planted. There are a few well crafted red herrings interspersed among them to throw the reader off the trail, but the the dénouement is appropriate. In short the reader doesn't feel "cheated" by a massive plot manipulation introduced to make the whole thing come out "surprising."

A lovely vintage mystery.