Flowers for the Judge

An Albert Campion Mystery

By: Margery Allingham

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room. Suspicion immediately falls on his wife's lover, the junior partner in the firm. But how does an unpublished Restoration comedy come to feature in the tragedy? And what of the odd disappearance of another director twenty years before?

The trial of Mike Wedgwood for murder is nail-bitingly tense, and Albert Campion needs all his resources to uncover the truth.

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.

©2013 Margery Allingham (P)2013 Audible Ltd

Great reader overall

Fun story, only complaint was Gina’s voice. The American accent was all over the place! Great otherwise.

Enjoyable slower read

I didn't read this straight through, but that is my reading style. The voice for Campion was a bit grating at first until I realized it fit his character perfectly. Campion WANTS to be overlooked and dismissed and the narrator chose well in how he voiced him.
I must be off my game, but the ending caught me twice. I won't say how, that would mean spoilers, but I will say, it was a satisfactory ending.

Best Albert Campion yet!

Best Albert Campion yet! Glad I stuck with the series - great story, wonderful characters.

Clever Story Line

And Campion is well read and portrayed. Sometimes I lost track of details. very enjoyable

Classic mystery, well read

This is a classic golden era mystery presented with a very good narrator. Everything I could want.