Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Cargo of Eagles by Margery Allingham, 1968

 


Series: Albert Campion #19 (last in series)

About the author: Margery Louise Allingham (1904 – 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction"Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Initially believed to be a parody of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Campion matured into a strongly individual character, part-detective, part-adventurer, who formed the basis for 18 novels and many short stories. (wikipedia

Major characters:
  • Morty Kelsey, professor and historical writer
  • James Teague, a released prisoner
  • Target Burrows, ship's engineer, with a glass eye
  • H.O. Wishart, poet
  • Dixie Wishart, his wife
  • Stanislaus Oates, retired Assistant Commissioner
  • Sir Albert CAmpion
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