The China Governess

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie called her a shining light. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private detective Albert Campion. Kinnit is rich, handsome and successful, but his past is a mystery to him and he needs Campion to find out how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own - involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess - that must also be brought to light by Campion's investigations. As urbane as Lord Wimseyas ingenious as Poirot Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.