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A review by lgpiper
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
3.0
I found this somewhat confusing at the beginning. I couldn't figure out what was happening. Way too many disparate characters doing random things. ... Or perhaps I was just kinda sleepy. Whatever, I did figure things out later on and liked the second half reasonably well.
So, it seems that Geoffrey Levett is engaged to marry Meg Elginbrodde. Allegedly, she's a war widow. But then she starts getting mysterious pictures in the mail that show a person in a crowd who looks suspiciously like her [late?] husband. So, is she being blackmailed, is he really alive after all, is something else going on? Who knows? Oh yeah, also London is ensconced in a pea-soup fog for days on end. So, everyone is walking around half blind.
Then, there's a roving band of misfits and wounded war veterans...doing something. They appear to be led by a large albino, Tiddy Doll. A notorious criminal, Jack Havoc escapes and starts knifing people around London, and eventually joins up with the misfit band. Then, there's some kind of legend about a treasure left behind on the French coast during the war. Perhaps there's an association with Maj. Elginbrodde, Meg's presumed dead spouse.
I dunno, it's all fairly confusing. Somewhere in the background Albert Campion wanders in from time to time. Apparently, he's gotten married and is no longer the roaring 20s man about town.
Well, as you can tell, the book confused the hell out of me, and I'd likely give it a - if I could, i.e. ***-, which somehow is better than **+, but I'm not sure how. Not a terrible book, but certainly one one I'd ever consider reading a second time.
So, it seems that Geoffrey Levett is engaged to marry Meg Elginbrodde. Allegedly, she's a war widow. But then she starts getting mysterious pictures in the mail that show a person in a crowd who looks suspiciously like her [late?] husband. So, is she being blackmailed, is he really alive after all, is something else going on? Who knows? Oh yeah, also London is ensconced in a pea-soup fog for days on end. So, everyone is walking around half blind.
Then, there's a roving band of misfits and wounded war veterans...doing something. They appear to be led by a large albino, Tiddy Doll. A notorious criminal, Jack Havoc escapes and starts knifing people around London, and eventually joins up with the misfit band. Then, there's some kind of legend about a treasure left behind on the French coast during the war. Perhaps there's an association with Maj. Elginbrodde, Meg's presumed dead spouse.
I dunno, it's all fairly confusing. Somewhere in the background Albert Campion wanders in from time to time. Apparently, he's gotten married and is no longer the roaring 20s man about town.
Well, as you can tell, the book confused the hell out of me, and I'd likely give it a - if I could, i.e. ***-, which somehow is better than **+, but I'm not sure how. Not a terrible book, but certainly one one I'd ever consider reading a second time.