S2 Episode 4: More Work for the Undertaker

More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham is our book this fortnight, and so we take a highly enjoyable trip through an eccentric, absurd, and Dickensian London with amateur detective Albert Campion and his companions.

It's a complex, slightly fantastical mystery, but as usual with the Golden Age writers, evoked with deep insight and acute observation. Margery Allingham wrote a plethora of Campion books, so if you loved this one, good news! There are plenty more.

As always, spoiler alert! We're gonna tell you whodunnit.

 

 

Show Notes:

A link to the Margery Allingham society's biographical page.

A link to the same website's page about Philip Youngman Carter, who was Allingham's husband. He not only finished her partially-completed final book after her death, but he went on to write further about Campion.

The Urban Dictionary entry for murderinos. It's a thing!

Here is one of Philip Youngman Carter's original book cover designs for Allingham's Police at the Funeral. We're feeling it. Today's book designers should take note.