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The Tiger in the Smoke (Penguin Classic Crime) (Paperback)

by Margery Allingham (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (4 Mar 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140166173
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140166170
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 296,348 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered' P.D. James" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars genuinely thrilling, 18 Jan 2006
This review is from: The Tiger in the Smoke (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...
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Allingham's best, 27 Jun 1999
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I often take to Margery Allingham for a bit of light reading. This book, though, is different. The buffoonish Albert Campion is largely in the background. The world inhabited by the villainous gang is dark and grotesque. The church scene involving the main villain and one of the other characters (don't want to give too much away) is worthy of Hitchcock and the revelation of the background history of these characters is beautifully and sensitively done. A classic.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Allingham's finest, 19 Mar 2004
By Martin Turner "Martin Turner" (Birmingham, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tiger in the Smoke (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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4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 5 months ago by Caro P

4.0 out of 5 stars 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 7 months ago by booksetc

2.0 out of 5 stars 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

3.0 out of 5 stars Tiger tiger, burning bright, in the fogbound London night
A thriller rather than a mystery. If you are new to Allingham's Campion stories this is not a good place to start, partly because it is so atypical of the series and also because... Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2005 by Peter Reeve

3.0 out of 5 stars Miasma
Despite the blurb and critical praise, this late novel is really no more than a thriller, not a “crime novel. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2003 by hacklehorn

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully written, richly atmospheric
I bought this at a book sale for 50 cents U.S. because I was intrigued by the first sentence, with its wonderful evocation of London fog. Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning evocative descriptive tense exciting thriller!
From the opening scene in a London 'pea-souper', the descriptive powers of this writer suck you into the strange and captivating thriller. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2000 by I. R. Lowell

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