Blurbs for Margery Allingham Mysteries

(Note: Books are listed alphabetically.)

Police at the Funeral (1931)

by Margery Allingham

Manor Books (3rd printing, March 1973)

Cover price: 95 cents

"Socrates Close

was a Cambridge landmark -- and also the ancient home of the Farraday family. Sudden strange and terrifying events were now plaguing the Farradays, who included Caroline, the strong-minded widow and matriarch of the clan; William, her middle-aged son, smug, pompous and still dependent on his mother; Andrew, her bitter, insulting nephew, who wrote a book exposing the family skeleton; Julia, her spinster daughter, greedy, ill-tempered and unloved, and Kitty, the daughter who married beneath her station decades before and was still unforgiven.

"From this unlikely cast, Campion had to pick the star in the bizarre drama of murder that was turning the old house into a chamber of horrors."