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.
Author Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. Her first novel was
published when she was seventeen. In 1929 she published The Crime at
Black Dudley and introduced the character who was to become the hallmark
of her writing--Albert Campion