Kim Hojun Hojun থেকে Malaypur, West Bengal, India
Witty, silly, frivolous fun, very much of its period (English Golden Age mystery). It's not a typical whodunit, because Campion is trying to prevent a crime not solve it, and Allingham is more interested in having fun and spinning out a complicated, evocative structure than in restoring the world disrupted by crime to order as so many detective novelists like to do. There are a few notes that jar: the Jewish jeweller, who is depicted as wise and skilled but definitely other, and the odd dialogue spoken by the rural peasantry, which just sounds weird and also very other but not at all authentic; of course, authenticity of any sort is not exactly the aim of this book. But if you like English Golden Age detective fiction, Allingham is a must.