Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
Murder takes center stage when a song-and-dance man is targeted, in an Albert Campion whodunit from "the best of mystery writers" (The New Yorker).

When entertainer Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling -- gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate, and an aging starlet is killed. Under pressure to uncover the culprit and plagued by his growing feelings for Sutane's wife, Campion finds himself uncomfortably embroiled in an investigation which tests his ingenuity -- and integrity -- to the limit.

"Allingham's work is always of the first rank." -- The New York Times

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. Early Bird Books / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504091824 (January, 2024), 336 p., $26.99.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
Murder takes center stage when a song-and-dance man is targeted, in an Albert Campion whodunit from "the best of mystery writers" (The New Yorker).

When entertainer Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling -- gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate, and an aging starlet is killed. Under pressure to uncover the culprit and plagued by his growing feelings for Sutane's wife, Campion finds himself uncomfortably embroiled in an investigation which tests his ingenuity -- and integrity -- to the limit.

"Allingham's work is always of the first rank." -- The New York Times

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. Early Bird Books / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504087315 (April, 2023), eBook, 3 MB (ca. 336 p.), $9.99.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling - Albert Campion.

Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate and an ageing starlet is killed.

Under pressure to uncover the culprit, and plagued by his growing feelings for Sutane's wife, Campion finds himself uncomfortably embroiled in an investigation which tests his ingenuity and integrity to the limit...

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. A Campion Mystery. Vintage Books, ISBN: 9780099593546 (May, 2015), 298 p., £8.99, eBook £4.99.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
Jimmy Sutane is London's favorite song-and-dance man, headlining at the Argosy Theatre, and beloved by all. Or almost all: Someone has taken to playing increasingly nasty pranks. Albert Campion, that peculiar young man with the knack for solving problems, offers to poke around, but what he finds chez Sutane nearly overwhelms him. The far-from-traditional household features a clutch of explosive egos, including a brooding "genius musician," and a melodramatic young actress who seems to delight in drawing others into her web of carefully groomed tragedy.

Someone here is aiming to hang up Sutane's tap shoes on a permanent basis, and if Campion is to keep Jimmy dancing, he'll have to come up with some pretty fancy footwork of his own.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. The 8th Albert Campion Mystery. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 1933397985 (September, 2008), 337 p., $14.95.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
Allingham's most popular character enters the world of the theater to find a nasty -- and ultimately deadly -- backstage prankster.
Strange pranks are being played on dancer Jimmy Sutane, star of London's Argosy Theatre. When they spread to the Sutane's country estate, it becomes apparent that someone wants Jimmy's famous feet to tap their final dance. Is it the aging actress with a secret past? The muscular lady masseuse? Or the eccentric songwriter? Campion never dreamed the big show-stopper would be murder -- and a case that promises to test his mind and break his heart.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. An Albert Campion Mystery. Carroll & Graf, ISBN: 0786703849 (December, 1996), 262 p., $4.95.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
Everyone adored Jimmy Sutane the talented song and dance man. Everyone except a spectacularly mean and ingenious practical joker and as soon as Albert Campion was called in to investigate, people began to die. Chloe Pye was the first victim and there is no shortage of suspects.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. Penguin Classic Crime, ISBN: 0140087826 (October, 1993), 288 p., £4.99 (?).

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (UK 1990)

From the Publisher:
Everyone fell under the spell of Jimmy Sutane, the charming and talented song-and-dance man.
Everyone, that is, except the spiteful practical joker who put a pin in his stick of grease-paint and pasted 'Last Week' over the 'House Full' notices. Nothing too deadly. But as soon as Albert Campion is called in to investigate, people begin to die and there's no shortage of suspects when the first victim's death is so convenient for so many.

As the death toll rises and the tension mounts, Margery Allingham's imperturbable detective loses his heart - and his customary detachment - when he falls violently in love with Jimmy Sutane's wife...

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140122419 (January, 1990), 288 p., £3.50.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (USA 1984)

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MURDER DANCE
Nasty pranks were being played on dancer Jimmy Sutane, star of London's Argosy Theatre. They began backstage as tuppenny-ha'penny squirts of malice. They became a pound's worth of trouble when they spread to the Sutanes country estate. Someone wanted Jimmy's famous feet to tap their final performance. The aging actress with a secret past? The ambitious understudy? The muscular lady masseuse who longed to rub Jimmy the right way? Or the eccentric songwriter who just composed "Pavane to a Dead Dancer"? Campion could guess the identity of the trickster. But he never dreamed the big showstopper would be murder -- and a case that promised to test his mind and break his heart.

CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATOR ALBERT CAMPION
A tall thin man with overly large spectacles, he is deceptively unobtrusive when tracking down a killer and uncannily capable of predicting the deadly twists of a criminal's mind. He is unquestionably a gentleman, but even Lugg, his dauntless valet, and his friends at Scotland Yard don't know all the secrets in Campion's past -- or the confidential cases he has covertly solved while in His Majesty's Service.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. An Albert Campion Mystery. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553238809 (January, 1984), 239 p., $2.50.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (USA 1976)

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THE GLAMOUR OF DANCE, THE THRILL OF THE THEATRE, THE HORROR OF A SUDDEN DEATH.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. An Albert Campion Mystery. New York: Manor Books, 1976, Manor Books #15203, 239 p., $1.50.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (USA 1971)

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IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED KILL, KILL AGAIN
Money or love... the dead woman had glittered on two continents with much knowledge of both. She had been killed, Mr. Campion knew, because someone loved her too much.
Or hated her too much.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. MacFadden-Bartell, MB 75-436 (August, 1971), 239 p., ¢75.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (UK 1968)

From the Publisher:
Everyone adored Jimmy Sutane the talented song and dance man. Everyone except a spectacularly mean and ingenious practical joker. And as soon as Albert Campion was called in to investigate, people began to die. Chloe Pye was the first victim.

And there is no shortage of suspects when someone's death is so convenient to so many people...

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, Penguin Boosk #667, 284 p., 3'6.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (USA 1962)

From the Publisher:
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED... KILL, KILL AGAIN
Money or love...the dead woman had glittered on two continents with much knowledge of both... She had been killed, Mr. Campion knew, either because someone loved her or hated her too much.

But now that her death was accomplished, the murderer dared not stop. And the killer's target this time was Mr. Campion himself...

DANCERS IN MOURNING
An enthralling novel by one of the great detective story writers of all time, Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. Multiple murder, a blunt instrument, a fractured heart -- a case for the cool, cool detective, Mr. Campion. MacFadden-Bartell, MB 50-136 (June, 1962), 239 p., ¢50.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning (UK 1948)

From the Publisher:
Jimmy Sutane, a talented dancer and the idol of musical revue, is the victim of a series of particularly vicious practical jokes. This inane persecution attains such a degree that Mr Campion is invited to investigate. Mr Campion visits White Walls, Sutane's country house, and on his first night there the first murder of a number of pointless, seemingly irresponsible murders is perpetrated. The victim is Chloe Pye, an intriguing unscrupulous woman, and her death could have been an accident or perhaps suicide, but in either case it was extremely convenient for quite a few people.

In an atmosphere of bewildering and increasing tension, and a situation not assisted by Mr Campion's emotional entanglements, the story is carried through to an unexpected, exciting climax.

Margery Allingham: Dancers in Mourning. West Drayton, Middlesex: Penguin, 1948, Penguin Boosk #667, 284 p., One shilling and sixpence.