S2 Episode 4: More Work for the Undertaker
Story Girls
English - March 18, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBooks Arts Comedy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham is our book this fortnight, and so we take a highly enjoyable trip through an eccentric, absurd, and Dickensian London with amateur detective Albert Campion and his companions.
It's a complex, slightly fantastical mystery, but as usual with the Golden Age writers, evoked with deep insight and acute observation. Margery Allingham wrote a plethora of Campion books, so if you loved this one, good news! There are plenty more.
As always, spoiler alert! We're gonna tell you whodunnit.
Show Notes:
A link to the Margery Allingham society's biographical page.
A link to the same website's page about Philip Youngman Carter, who was Allingham's husband. He not only finished her partially-completed final book after her death, but he went on to write further about Campion.
The Urban Dictionary entry for murderinos. It's a thing!
Here is one of Philip Youngman Carter's original book cover designs for Allingham's Police at the Funeral. We're feeling it. Today's book designers should take note.