Mr Campion''s War

About the author

Mike Ripley is the author of the award-winning 'Angel' series of comedy thrillers which have twice won the CWA Last Laugh Award. Described as 'England's funniest crime writer' (The Times), he is also a respected critic of crime fiction, writing for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Times and Shots Magazine.

Ripley first learned of the final unfinished Campion novel when he was a guest speaker at the Margery Allingham Society's annual convention. He offered - and received the Margery Allingham Society's blessing - to complete the manuscript on the adventures of Albert Campion, who Ripley describes as 'one of the brightest stars in the rich firmament of British crime writing'.

Summary

It's Albert Campion's seventieth birthday, and he has decided to enthral his guests at the Dorchester Hotel with his account of his wartime experiences in Vichy France more than twenty-five years before. But in doing so he unveils a series of extraordinary events, the repercussions of which put one of his guests in deadly danger...

Product details

• Authors: Mike Ripley, Mike (Contributor) Ripley, Ripley Mike
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780727829801
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-2980-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: An Albert Campion Mystery; An Albert Campion Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Historical crime novels; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Historical crime and mysteries, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980