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The Crime at Black Dudley (1929)

de Margery Allingham

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:Classic Crime from the Golden Age, the first in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling's favourite Golden Age author.
George Abbershaw is set for a social weekend at Black Dudley manor, hosted by Wyatt Petrie and his elderly uncle Colonel Combe, who enjoys the company of Bright Young Things. With Meggie Oliphant in attendance, George looks forward to the chance of getting closer to the girl he's set his heart on. But when murder spoils the party, the group soon find out that not only is there a killer in their midst, but the house is under the control of notorious criminals. Trapped and at their mercy, George must find a way to thwart their diabolical plans while getting himself and Meggie out alive.
Luckily for Abbershaw, among the guests is Albert Campion ?? a garrulous and affable party-crasher with a great knack for solving mysteries and interrogating suspects.
The Crime at Black Dudley, first published in 1929, is the first novel to introduce Margery Allingham's amiable and much loved sleuth ?? Albert Ca
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Summary: A house party at a remote mansion results in the death of its one reclusive resident after a “lights out” game with a 15th century dagger, followed by the party being held captive by the head of an international crime syndicate.

I’ve read extensively the works of three of the four “Queens of Crime” from the Golden Age of Mysteries–Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Ngaio Marsh. The fourth is Margery Allingham. I’ve only read one other of her works, More Work for the Undertaker, I’ve decided it’s time to read more of this lesser known, at least to me, of the “Queens.” Her sleuth, Albert Campion, likewise is less known that Lord Peter, Poirot, or Alleyn. It may be, however, that he is the most eccentric..

In this novel, he plays a minor, but not unimportant part, but it is actually the narrator, George Abbershaw, a renowned pathologist, who solves the murder part of this story. The story begins with an invitation to a group of young friends, including Abbershaw, to a house party at a forbidding old country mansion. Their host is Wyatt Petrie, the owner of the mansion, whose longstanding occupant, along with servants, is his uncle, Colonel Coombe. Abbershaw is joined by Meggie Oliphant, who ends up being thrown together with him in the subsequent adventures of the story. There are several other friends of Petrie. And then there is Campion. No one is quite sure how he got there.

There are other guests present, who turn out to be at the head of a ruthless international crime syndicate. They seem to be guests of Colonel Coombe. Campion is apprehensive, but the party proceeds with a macabre game involving a dagger passed from one party member to another while the lights are out. The point is to not be holding the dagger when the lights go on.

Much more happens when the lights go on. They learn that Colonel Coombe has had an attack, and subsequently that he is dead. This was not unexpected due to his weak heart. Abbershaw is called on to sign the death certificate but not allowed to examine the body but can only see the face. That’s enough–he knows this wasn’t a heart attack but death from a wound from which he “bled out.” But the pressure from the local doctor and those with Coombe is such that he signs, allowing the body to be cremated, destroying the evidence.

If all this isn’t enough to ruin a house party, they learn they are being held captive by the head of the syndicate, Dawlish, and his associates. They are after papers that Coombe was supposed to give them. It turns out that Campion, working for an unspecified employer, also was after the papers. No one knows where they are and the party is threatened in dire ways if they don’t surrender the papers, key to an international heist. One of the party attempting to escape to get help is wounded and worse is threatened. Eventually Abbershaw deduces from various comments, including those of a daffy old lady, that the murderer was not one of the syndicate but one of Petrie’s party.

We have two mysteries–that of the papers and that of the murderer. For a time, Campion even seems suspect of one or both. Yet he neither has papers or is the murderer. He raises some questions, and shows himself quite resourceful, including climbing down a chimney to rescue Abbershaw and Meggie at one point in the story. Otherwise, he seems a bit of an eccentric twit from upper class origins, who indulges in working as a private investigator. It appears Allingham is saving him for future stories, giving us just enough taste that we are curious for more.

The end of the story is exciting, and in the end, it is Abbershaw, with his friend, the young physician Prenderby who solve the crimes. Like the other work I reviewed, there are a number of threads, a lot of moving parts to Allingham’s story that require close reading. I have to say that I am yet to be won over but I’m willing to read more, if for no other reason than to see how Allingham develops Campion. ( )
  BobonBooks | Oct 12, 2023 |
A fun, absorbing read. Some lack of depth in character and holes in story, but considering that it's over 100 years old, it's still a great escape book! I kept wondering about these people kept holed up for days...what did they use for bathroom facililties...I know that they wouldn't have mentioned that then, but still. I enjoyed seeing Campion in this first story as it's been years since I read one of her books. I intend to read the second one also, just to see his character development, then I'm not sure about the rest. ( )
  EllenH | Jul 19, 2023 |
Interesting introduction to the series protagonist. I'm curious to see what POVs the other books are told from and how Campion is depicted/presented in them. ( )
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
Finally to read the first of the Albert Campion series. Not much of Campion there. We were surprised. David Thorpe's narration caused us some problems. We hated the voice he used for Campion, but it is understandable from the text that he would choose it. Not really a murder mystery as such, but there is a murder to solve. A lot of wild antics. I'd be interested to know how Campion develops from here. ( )
  njcur | Sep 9, 2021 |
Real Rating: 3.25* of five, rounded down because WOW this didn't age that well

Albert Campion's neurodivergent character is something we're not unfamiliar with in the 21st century. It was baffling in the 19th, whence Allingham derived her world-view. I don't want to give you the wrong idea: she isn't making fun of Campion, she's making sport of him, and the difference is not mere distinction.

Campion appears for the first time in this story as comic relief. He isn't very important in the proceedings at all. This is a case of the publisher getting feedback..."we LOVE that looney, he made us laugh!"...and requiring the author to make more of him in future. A similar thing happened, in my observation, to Louise Penny: The Three Pines series was originally about Clara, a very lonely and dissatisfied married Artist living in a rural Quebecois village with an interesting history and a future as a criminal hotbed. Along came Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté and hey presto! The books are now centered on him.

So this, the first outing, isn't A Campion Story. That's the source of my downward rounding. But that doesn't mean that it's not worth reading. I think, despite social attitudes I don't much like, that stories from this period are very fun reads because they set the standards of fair-play puzzle-based series mysteries that we-the-bookish devour with insatiable appetite. I do want to let you know that those sensitive to the portrayal of the neurodivergent should either skip the read or, and this is what I encourage you to do, go into it prepared for the attitudes of the past to prevail over your preferred standard. ( )
  richardderus | Apr 20, 2021 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:Classic Crime from the Golden Age, the first in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling's favourite Golden Age author.
George Abbershaw is set for a social weekend at Black Dudley manor, hosted by Wyatt Petrie and his elderly uncle Colonel Combe, who enjoys the company of Bright Young Things. With Meggie Oliphant in attendance, George looks forward to the chance of getting closer to the girl he's set his heart on. But when murder spoils the party, the group soon find out that not only is there a killer in their midst, but the house is under the control of notorious criminals. Trapped and at their mercy, George must find a way to thwart their diabolical plans while getting himself and Meggie out alive.
Luckily for Abbershaw, among the guests is Albert Campion ?? a garrulous and affable party-crasher with a great knack for solving mysteries and interrogating suspects.
The Crime at Black Dudley, first published in 1929, is the first novel to introduce Margery Allingham's amiable and much loved sleuth ?? Albert Ca

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