Dancers in Mourning
An Albert Campion Mystery
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Narrated by:
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David Thorpe
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Written by:
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Margery Allingham
About this listen
Jimmy Sutane is London's favorite song-and-dance man, headlining at the Argosy Theatre, and beloved by all. Or almost all - someone has taken to playing increasingly nasty pranks. Albert Campion offers to poke around, but what he finds chez Sutane nearly overwhelms him. The far-from traditional household features a clutch of explosive egos, including a brooding 'genius musician,' and a melodramatic young actress who seems to delight in drawing others into her web of carefully groomed tragedy. Someone here is aiming to hang up Sutane's tap shoes on a permanent basis, and if Campion is to keep Jimmy dancing, he'll have to come up with some pretty fancy footwork of his own.
Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. Her first novel was published when she was seventeen. In 1929 she published The Crime at Black Dudley and introduced the character who was to become the hallmark of her writing - Albert Campion.
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- pigletbunny
- 2023-01-12
VERY realistic
In Dancers in Mourning, the exploration and depiction of emotions and actions is SUPERB. As a PSYC (and CRIM) expert, I can tell you that they are VERY realistic :-) :-) :-)
Also, as is usual with Margery Allingham’s novels, we are provided with an informative look into what life was like to in the UK almost 100 years ago. I don’t remember if it’s this book or an earlier one in this Campion series, but an interesting reference is made to the fading fad of polyandry. Almost 100 years ago! (In the Phryne Fisher Australian mystery series, reference is made more than once to the 1920s/‘30s “free love” movement, which was fairly widespread! The young people of the 1960s didn’t invent it; they were following in the footsteps of their grandparents! The grandparents just never mentioned THEIR “free love” period.
N.B. Many, many things that current society portrays as new, often harmful, practices aren’t new; they’re repeats of past ones that are just not mentioned. E.g. There were a HUGE number of teenage pregnancies in the United States of the 1950s, vastly more than there were 30-40 years later (when the United States’s overall population was considerably higher). The NUMBER was higher in the 1950s; the percentage was much, much higher. It’s just that no-one talked about them in the 1950s, and back then most pregnant teenagers were forced to marry the fathers, many, many of whom had created the pregnancy by s*xually assaulting female teenagers.
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