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Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered (P. D. James )
[Franks] captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection . . . For those who relish classic crime fiction (DAILY Express )
**'Philip Franks sounds, marvellously, as if he's reading in a dinner-jacket . . . Fabulous (Independent on Sunday )
Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light (Agatha Christie )
[Franks] captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection . . . For those who relish classic crime fiction (DAILY Express )
**'Philip Franks sounds, marvellously, as if he's reading in a dinner-jacket . . . Fabulous (Independent on Sunday )
Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light (Agatha Christie )
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`[Franks] captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection . . . For those who relish classic crime fiction'
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
it is sad that so much of margery allingham's oeuvre is currently out of print; vintage are to be commended for (slowly) rectifying this. the success of poirot and wimsey has relegated campion to a thoroughly undeserved third place in the canon of golden age crime-busters. although campion is not the central character of 'tiger', this gives the reader the chance to savour allingham's evocative prose style. in this london, former soldiers who found a home in the army are now misfits, cut off from normal society. voices from the past can be heard through the fog. oates, luke and campion seem powerless to apprehend a magnificently ruthless enemy. do yourself a favour and read...
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
From the opening scene in a London 'pea-souper', the descriptive powers of this writer suck you into the strange and captivating thriller. Set in post-WWII London, each of the characters is wonderfully and mesmorisingly described, with effective cameos, such as the first meeting between the police inspector Luke and the old Canon Avril. It is utterly believable and has the best (should it be vilest?) description of evil, which takes a whole chapter and is set at night in a dark church. The 'Tiger' is a psychopathic killer and 'the Smoke' is London, but the story does revolve around a commando raid on the French coast, and the finale is set there. One of Allingham's Campion books, it marks the progression of this character from the 20s fop to the chastened and matured person who has suffered through the six years of war. A good read and re-read. Unputdownable!
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Tiger in the Smoke is Marjory Allingham's finest novel, and the pinnacle of the Inspector Campion series. A comparison with the first Campion, 'The Gyrth Chalice Mystery' reveals just how far she had taken her art from rather flat stereotypes and set pieces to a dark, memorable and perfectly drawn thriller.
Interestingly, Campion is only an incidental figure in Tiger in the Smoke. It is really a novel about the anti-hero Jack Havoc, a knife-murderer following a religion he has created himself 'the science of luck'. The chilling encounter which sets the seal on this novel is not murderer-meets-detective, but when the murderer meets a clergyman who has the power to transfix him. Havoc tells the clergyman about his 'science of luck', and the clergyman tells him that he already knows this philosophy, but it is called the 'science of death'.
From here in the demise of Havoc is artistically certain. The plot accelerates, through to the final, chillingly ambiguous 'His body was never recovered.'
If you have seen Allingham as a lesser figure, after Sayers and Christie, this book should set you straight. It belongs with Conan Doyle's 'Valley of Fear' and Sayers' 'Murder must advertise' at the top of the list of British crime thrillers.
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The Mature Campion
`The Tiger in the Smoke' (Smoke = London) is a traditional detective novel of the period (1950) and one of a series featuring Margery Allingham's `gentleman detective' Albert... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Brian R. Martin
tiger inb the smoke
this is an absolute classic by Margery Allingham,it evokes smoggy London of the 50s perfectly.if only the film was still availiable.
Published 11 months ago by brian tipping
A nice old crime novel!
This follows a woman who is shortly to be married to her fiance Geoffrey, but she keeps getting photos which are supposed to be of her first husband, who died in the Second World... Read more
Published 19 months ago by miss_spookiness
Fog
I am old enough to have lived through the last of the London pea-soupers and Allingham's descriptions bring back my childhood memories of be able to neither breathe nor see. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Graham R. Hill
don't believe some of these reviews - it's a cracker
I'd never read an Allingham novel before and had no idea what to expect. This is amazingly atmospheric, twisty, absorbing, classic crime - a bit dated in the way the blessed... Read more
Published on 4 Nov 2009 by Lola Bergen
Not the best in the series - start elsewhere
Set in post WW2 London with a denouement on the French coast this is dark strange stuff from Ms Allingham and her Campion detective. This novel really is a game of two halves. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2009 by Officer Dibble
Atmospheric thriller
This is the first Campion mystery I've read and my only disappointment was that he didn't feature more strongly in it. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2009 by Deborah
Thrills in Foggy London
This is a really good yarn. A very evocative picture of a dangerous creature at large in the London fog. The story is well paced and the characters sympathetically drawn. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2009 by Caro P
Not whodunnit but why
My first thought was that this would make a cracking good film. (Well, apparently there was a 1950s film version but I've never seen it. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2008 by booksetc
The Tiger in the Smoke
I have been reading all the Campion novels in order and having just finished this one I can safely say this is not Allingham or Campion at their best. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2006 by Rich
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