MR Campion's Fault

Margery Allingham's Mr Campion finds himself a fish out of water when he investigates a murder in a Yorkshire mining village.

Following the death of the senior English master in a tragic road accident, Mr Campion's son Rupert and daughter-in-law Perdita are helping out at Ash Grange School for Boys, where Perdita's godfather is headmaster. While Perdita is directing the end-of-term play, a musical version of Dr Faustus, Rupert is tackling the school's rugby football team - and both of them are finding their allotted tasks more of a challenge than they had anticipated.

When the headmaster telephones Albert Campion to inform him that Rupert has been arrested, Mr Campion heads to Yorkshire to get to the bottom of the matter. There are no secrets in the traditional mining village of Denby Ash, he's told - but on uncovering reports of a disruptive poltergeist, a firebrand trade unionist, a missing conman and a local witch, he finds that's far from being the case. And was the English master, Mr Browne's, death really an accident . . .?

Author: Mike Ripley
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780727886255

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2016
Publishers Weekly 07/18/2016
Booklist 09/15/2016 pg. 27

About the Author
Ripley, Mike: - Mike Ripley is the two-time winner of the Crime Writers' Last Laugh award, and the author of several thrillers and historical novels. He writes a hugely respected monthly review column for Shots Magazine entitled getting Away with Murder. Philip Youngman Carter was Margery Allingham's artist husband and a novelist in his own write.