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The Tiger in the Smoke Hardcover – May 16, 2017

by Margery Allingham (Author), Sara Paretsky (Introduction)

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Book 14 of 21: The Albert Campion Mysteries

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Meg Elginbrodde, a young war widow, receives photographs that suggest her husband is still alive so she enlists the help of her cousin, Albert Campion to investigate. The man in the photographs turns out to be a known felon, ‘Duds’ Morrison. Meg’s jealous fiancé, Geoffrey Levitt, accosts Duds but both men are attacked by a criminal gang posing as a rackety street band. Meanwhile, Meg’s father, Canon Avril, a gentle priest, wonders how Duds came to be wearing Meg’s husband’s coat. A tortuous trail leads through the oppressive London fog to Jack Havoc, a violent murderer. Set in a dingy and damaged post war London this is Allingham’s most sophisticated novel which examines the very nature of evil.

With an introduction by the New York Times-bestselling author of detective fiction, Sara Paretsky.

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Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. The child of two writers, she grew up in the village of Layer Breton near Colchester and spent much of her childhood writing stories and plays. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923 when she was only 19. Her breakthrough came in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley, which introduced Albert Campion, the gentleman sleuth who went on to become her most famous character and featured in eighteen further novels and numerous short stories establishing her as one of the four queens of the golden age of crime. Margery Allingham died in 1966 and her husband, Philip Youngman Carter, completed her final Campion novel, The Cargo of Eagles.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan Collector's Library; Main Market Ed. edition (May 16, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509826785
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509826780
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.05 x 0.85 x 6.2 inches

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Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London in 1904 to a family immersed in literature. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923 when she was 19. Her first work of detective fiction was a serialized story published by the Daily Express in 1927. Entitled The White Cottage Mystery, it contained atypical themes for a woman writer of the era. Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley. This introduced Albert Campion, albeit originally as a minor character. He returned in Mystery Mile, thanks in part to pressure from her American publishers, much taken with the character. Campion proved so successful that Allingham made him the centrepiece of another 17 novels and over 20 short stories, continuing into the 1960s.

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J. A. Butler

A Thoroughly British Tale

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024

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From the very beginning to the simple ending the story is masterfully understated. No histrionics or bravura just a fully fleshed out picture of England after World War 2 as the back drop for a carefully crafted story peopled by men of character and women of virtue who quietly triumph over a force of evil. Quite a delightful read.

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Designer Donna

1930s English murder mystery

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2023

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This book took a little getting used to at first. Growing up in London might help. A World War 1 widow has a new fiancee, but sightings of her dead husband disrupt her equilibrium. They turn out to be false, but the fake husband's murder warns of danger. totally wicked young man from her past runs amuck, aided by his greedy mother. Though the plot was complicated and the end was abrupt, it was satisfying.

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Peter Reeve

Tiger tiger, burning bright, in the fogbound London night

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2003

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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 the array of minor characters that flit through the pages, and which will be familiar to readers of previous Campion books, can be rather bewildering for the newcomer.
Written in 1952, the story is interesting for its insight into aspects of life in post-war London. Some of the references, and much of the slang, will be lost on young, and non-British, readers. It will also perpetuate the myth of London being permanently fogbound. Present-day London hardly ever experiences fog, but in the fifties, when it was still an industrial city and suffered heavy smogs, it was commonly known as 'The Smoke', hence the book's title.
In truth, the author's grasp of underworld culture is somewhat shaky. She doesn't get the language or the behavior quite right. She was from the rural English midlands and from a different social class, so this is very much an outsider's view.
The intriguing story and the intense drama are what make this book worthwhile. It is well written and one episode, Lugg's driving through the fog, is hilarious. He wonders aloud at one stage whether he is approaching a traffic island or the side of a bank building. The villain, Havoc, is memorable. Oddly, there is no one, central hero. That role is shared between three or four characters. Campion himself is incidental.
My one complaint about the plot is that it relies on a very remarkable coincidence, which is something that always undermines credibility. But if you are willing to accept it (and remarkable coincidences do occur in real life) then you can relax and enjoy this first-rate thriller.
If you do enjoy "Tiger in the Smoke", you might also like Graham Greene's "Brighton Rock", which features the razor gangs of pre-war Brighton, and which has an equally memorable villain.

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Shirley Y. Thomas

A well-wrought story, well written

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2016

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"The fog was like a saffron blanket soaked in ice-water. It had hung over London all day and at last was beginning to descend. The sky was yellow as a duster and the rest was granular black, overprinted in grey and lightened by occasional slivers of bright fish colour as a policeman turned in his wet cape." I can count on one hand the times I've rated books five stars in the three years I've been writing these reviews. This book gets the whole galaxy for the plotting, the originality of the story, the atmosphere of the time and place, the characters and, finally, the intelligence and wisdom of the author herself. I promise myself I will read the whole body of her work, or at least the entire Campion series. One of these books is worth ten of the books I read from lesser writers.

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Victoria G Memminger

Not Older--Better

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2021

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Despite the fact that Albert Campion was a detective with an interesting background, he could be sort of annoying in those early books. Now he is married to Amanda and has a son--and he's just as interesting, but more likeable. This book is more violent than the others, but also more thought-provoking. Allingham raises the question of pure evil and her villain is an amazing character study, as is the clergyman who understands it all. One of her best, and that's saying a lot.

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JZS

There’s a reason it’s called “The Golden Age” of mystery

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015

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I love Golden Age Mysteries. I own most if not all of the works of Sayers, Christie, Marsh, Heyer and Carr. Margery Allingham was never a favorite of mine primarily because in her early novels her hero, Albert Campion, seemed a pale imitation of Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Wimsey. However, it is clear in this later book that, like Wimsey, Campion has matured and the character “tics” that annoyed me are gone.

For some reason, I’d gotten away from the Golden Age and lately have been reading Victorian and modern mysteries. But “Tiger” is one of the books on HRF Keating’s list of 100 best mysteries that I hadn’t read so when a friend pointed out this kindle book for $2.99 I picked it up. A few pages into “The Tiger in the Smoke”, I remembered why Golden Age was my genre of preference. Most of what I’ve read over the past couple of years pales in comparison.

First of all the “cozy mystery thriller” label on this is completely misleading. Undoubtedly, some Golden Age mysteries, especially some from Christie and Heyer, qualify as cozies but “Tiger” is very atmospheric with tension that can be oppressive at times. It also had more (off stage) violence and threat of violence than is common in a “cozy”. Like most Golden Age mysteries it is filled with interesting, quirky characters and a bizarre seemingly senseless little puzzle that is actually complex and gradually revealed. If anything it reminded much more of John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson than a cozy. Like Carr, this story does not focus on Campion (in fact he is not the driving force in the story) but is told from the varying perspectives of different characters.

Allingham does create some very ornate prose which some modern readers may not enjoy. It wasn’t constant but it was noticeable. An example: “Some resourceful policeman had unearthed one of the old naphtha flares which are the only real answer to fog. Like a livid plume, it spat and hissed above the heads of a knot of men in the chasm, its vigorous smoke trail mingling with the other vapours, making Rembrandtesque clouds above them.”

“The Tiger in the Smoke” is a nice Golden Age mystery that I enjoyed a lot. I’m looking forward to another Allingham on Keating’s list “More Work for the Undertaker”.

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Not for everyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2023

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I have to say not my normal read but every so often I enjoy a change and read It . Tiger in the Smoke was certainly a good choice for me. The pea soup for in London added just the right ingredients for the beginning of a Lord Peter Whimsey mystery and with diverse characters, all well described, twists and turns nonstop I will have to wait for a few months and read it again.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in India on February 26, 2018

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Aborbing and full of suspense!

haginodai sensei

Beats Agatha Christie hollow

Reviewed in Japan on February 14, 2022

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Better even than Conan Doyle. Gives Dickens a run for his money, especially with its imaginative descriptions of fog which remind one of the opening of Bleak House and its animated mud.

Allingham grasps the male psyche pretty well. At least her writing is free of the foolish girlie notions of many female writers.

I liked the way Allingham suggested or insinuated, making the reader work to earn his understanding, especially the nature of Mrs. Cash and the true identity of Jack Havoc.

The ending maintained suspense right to the end, despite being pretty unrealistic. It reminded me of “Brighton Rock” and Pinkie, “hard all the way through”, like Havoc who prides himself on never going soft.

The character of Avril was particularly interesting and well done: a man of the church who is not wracked with guilt, nor full of boring doubts, but an “absent-minded professor”-type who nevertheless possesses the insight into human nature of a Father Brown.

I’m shocked that I had not read her before though I knew the name. There is a black-and-white 1956 movie of this story, if you can find a copy.

Anne Leith

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2016

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Good read. Quick service.

Adeline

Bon achat.

Reviewed in France on January 26, 2016

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Bon livre, bien monté. Je ne regrette pas de l'avoir acheté. Abordable à tout point de vue: langue, intérêt, prix.

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