A review by cleheny
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham

2.0

The Crime at Black Dudley is the "first" Albert Campion story, but Campion is a secondary character and one who doesn't actually twig to the central mystery of who killed Uncle Wyatt. The tale itself is elaborate and fantastical. There's a lot of implausible developments, coupled with the classic plucky English upper class characters who don't panic or betray each other to save themselves., no matter how dire the circumstances An Amazon reviewer speculated that Allingham didn't necessarily know what she had with Campion when she wrote this book, which is why her hero (George Abbershaw) is a fairly unmemorable character with the requisite not-really-believable romance.

Candidly, this one isn't really worth reading.