Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
From the Golden Age mystery author comes "a richly detailed and entertaining romp, with a fascinating resolution and an unconventional and winning sleuth" (Chicago Tribune).

Albert Campion heads to Cambridge as a favor to a friend, whose fiancée is employed by the elderly Faraday family, to investigate the disappearance of her uncle Andrew. What the self-proclaimed "Deputy-Adventurer" finds is foul play of the most heinous kind: murder.

Andrew is found floating in a river, bound and shot in the head. Needless to say, in a household of unlikable characters -- presided over by an authoritarian widow -- he's not sorely missed. But fear has pervaded the dour family, bringing up decades of suppressed hatreds, petty jealousies, and nasty impulses -- all of which lead to a second shocking killing. As the number of Faradays dwindle, so should the number of suspects. But Campion discovers that in a family this dysfunctional, it's hard to stop what hatred has set in motion.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. Early Bird Books / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504092371 (November, 2023), 294 p., $23.99.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
From the Golden Age mystery author comes "a richly detailed and entertaining romp, with a fascinating resolution and an unconventional and winning sleuth" (Chicago Tribune).

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. Early Bird Books / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504088350 (June, 2023), eBook, 3 MB (ca. 294 p.), $14.99.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?

The tranquility of Cambridge is punctured when Cousin Andrew of the illustrious Faraday family disappears without a trace. No time is wasted in summoning Albert Campion and his sleuthing skills away from the bustle of Piccadilly to investigate - but little does he expect to be greeted by a band of eccentric relatives all at daggers with each other.

Soon there are as many dead bodies as there are red herrings, and Campion must uncover the secrets of the Faraday dynasty before another victim falls...

As urbane as Lord Wimsey... as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. A Campion Mystery. Vintage, ISBN: 9780099507345 (September, 2015), 237 p., £8.99.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancee of an old college friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he little expects the mysterious spate of death and dangers that follows among the bizarre inhabitants of Socrates Close, Cambridge. He and Stanislaus Oates must tread carefully, and battle some complex family dynamics, to solve the case.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. A Campion Mystery. Vintage, ISBN: 009950734X (March, 2007), 237 p., £6.99.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
The imperious Caroline Faraday runs her house like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact that it's 1931. Furniture and meals are heavy and elaborate, both motorcars and morning tea are forbidden on account of vulgarity. The Faraday children -- now well into middle age chafe at the restrictions, but with no money of their own, they respond primarily by quarreling amongst themselves.

Their endless squabbling is tedious but nothing more until one of them turns up missing and then dead, followed shortly by his petulant, whining sister. Though neither will be much missed, decency demands that Caroline Faraday hire the nearly respectable Albert Campion to investigate their untimely ends. Unfortunately, what Mr. Campion discovers will force the modern world relentlessly into Mrs. Faraday's stuffy Victorian parlor.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. The 4th Albert Campion Mystery. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 1933397640 (February, 2007), 201 p., $14.95.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
Great Aunt Caroline rules the roost in an old Cambridge residence which is riddled with mystery, evil...and terror.
Uncle Andrew is dead, Aunt Julia is poisoned, Uncle William attacked...and once again Albert Campion, that much-loved hero of detective fiction, comes to the rescue. With her customary skill Margery Allingham takes the reader through a delightful maze of intrigue as Albert Campion, bland, blue-eyed and deceptively vague, encounters the formidable Great Aunt Caroline and her bizarre household of horror.

'Both her passions and her patterns are beautiful, accurate and serene' -- Daily Telegraph

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. Penguin Classic Crime, ISBN: 014008780X (January, 1987), 237 p., £3.99 (?).

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (UK 1978)

From the Publisher:
Starring Albert Campion, bland, blue-eyed, deceptively vague professional adventurer, and Great Aunt Caroline, that formidable and exquisite old lady, ruling an ancient household heavy with evil.

Uncle Andrew is dead, shot through the head. Cousin George, the black sheep, is skulking round corners. Aunt Julia is poisoned, Uncle William attacked. And terror invades an old Cambridge residence.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. A Mr. Campion Mystery. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1978, ISBN: 0140002197, 237 p., 80p.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (USA 1973)

From the Publisher:
Socrates Close
was a Cambridge landmark -- and also the ancient home of the Farraday family. Sudden strange and terrifying events were now plaguing the Farradays, who included Caroline, the strong-minded widow and matriarch of the clan; William, her middle-aged son, smug, pompous and still dependent on his mother; Andrew, her bitter, insulting nephew, who wrote a book exposing the family skeleton; Julia, her spinster daughter, greedy, ill-tempered and unloved, and Kitty, the daughter who married beneath her station decades before and was still unforgiven.

From this unlikely cast, Campion had to pick the star in the bizarre drama of murder that was turning the old house into a chamber of horrors.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. Manor Books #95-233 (March, 1973), 205 p., ¢75 (?).

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (UK 1966)

From the Publisher:
Police at the funeral starring Albert Campion bland, blue-eyed, deceptively vague professional adventurer, and Great Aunt Caroline that formidable and exquisite old lady, ruling an ancient household heavy with evil. Uncle Andrew is dead, shot through the head. Cousin George, the black sheep is skulking round corners. Aunt Julia is poisoned, Uncle William attacked. And terror invades an old Cambridge residence.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1966, Penguin Books #C219, 252 p., 3'6.

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral (USA 1963)

From the Publisher:
THE SCENE: Socrates Close. A Cambridge landmark and home of the Farradays.
THE CAST: The Farraday family.
CAROLINE, strong minded widow and martriarch of the clan
WILLIAM, her middle-aged son - smug, pompous and still dependent on his mother
ANDREW, her bitter insulting nephew - who wrote a book exposing the family skeleton
JULIA, her spinster daughter - greedy, ill-tempered and unloved
KITTY, the daughter who married beneath her station decades before - and was still unforgiven.

From this unlikely cast, Campion had to pick the star in the bizarre drama of MURDER that was turning the old house into a chamber of horrors!

Margery Allingham: Police at the Funeral. The impeccable Farradays thought it poor taste to have murder in the family, for it meant... Police at the Funeral. MacFadden Books 60-122, 205 p., ¢60.