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|title=Coroner's Pidgin
|author=Margery Allingham
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Crime
|summary=An Albert campion Campion story from the queen of crime writers. Written in the nineteen forties it's still a good read more than sixty years on, with an excellent plot and characterisation.
|rating=4.5
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=240
|publisher=Vintage
|date=7 Sep September 2006
|isbn=0099492784
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In the closing months of the Second World War Albert Campion returns from a secret mission which has kept him overseas for three years. He visits his London home and plans to have a bath before catching a train out of the city that evening. Whilst he's bathing, his manservant, Lugg and an aristocratic lady carry a woman's body into his bedroom. Campion would prefer not to become involved - he has a train to catch after all - but he's prevented from leaving the city and has to apply himself to solving the mystery of the woman's death and of the disappearing art treasures.
This book was kindly sent to The Bookbag by Vintage Books who are in the process of reissuing a series of Margery Allingham's Albert Campion books.
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|name=Jill
|verb=said
|comment= My mother worships at the shrine of Marjery Allingham dontchaknow.
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|name=Sue
|verb=said
|comment= She's a wise woman. Allingham is much under-rated.
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|name=lechateau1962
|verb=said
|comment= One of my favourite crime authors and very much underrated. A good basic mystery/crime and no gore which many of odays authors rely on.
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