Mr Campion's Farewell by Mike Ripley

Mr Campion's Farewell by Mike Ripley

The idyllic English village of Lindsay Carfax isn't run by the parish council, the rating authority, the sanitary inspector nor the local cops as you might suppose. The real bosses are the Carders - something to do with wool, four hundred years back. They wound stuff on cards, I suppose. But these boys are very fly customers - they're right on the ball. Boiled down, it comes to this; they're a syndicate who run this place - which makes a packet - with their own rules. One way and another they probably own most of it." Thus ruminated Superintendent Charles Luke to Albert Campion who was contemplating visiting his wayward artistic niece in Carfax. And when a missing schoolteacher reappeared after nine days, and Campion's car was "inadvertently" damaged, not to mention Campion himself, then all the signs were that not all was what it seemed. Campion himself plays the central role in this quintessentially British mystery, but there are appearances too from all of Margery Allingham's regular characters, from Luke to Campion's former manservant Lugg, to his wife Lady Amanda Fitton and others. The dialogue is sharp and witty, the observation keen, and the climax is thrilling and eerily atmospheric.

Mike Ripley is the author of twenty-four comic thrillers and historical novels, and has twice won the Crime Writers' Association's Last Laugh Award. He writes the Getting Away With Murder monthly review column for Shots Magazine, and he's also the author of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a'reader's history' of British action and spy thrillers from 1953 to 1975, which received the H.R.F. In 2017, the Keating Prize for nonfiction was given. With Mr Campion's Goodbye (Severn House, 2014; Black Thorn, 2019), he finished a novel started by Margery Allingham's husband, Pip Youngman Carter, in 1969 but never finished. Mr Campion's Fox, Mr Campion's Fault, Mr Campion's Abdication, Mr Campion's War, Mr Campion's Visit, and Mr Campion's Séance, he considers his attempts to fly solo with, and do honour to, a great literary figure.

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ISBN 13	9781847515087
ISBN 10	1847515088
Title	Mr Campion's Farewell
Author	Mike Ripley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2014-08-29
Number of pages	288
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