Fannish 50: 2024: Everything is Murder edition: #26: Campion by Margery Allingham

I have mentioned a Campion novel I stumbled upon which I enjoyed immensely, Traitor's Purse. But there are others which I didn't enjoy as much and still others which I didn't finish. So, a mixed bag. And I haven't read them all. I still think that she deals with big issues (conspiracies, war, espionage, etc.) much more realistically than Agatha Christie. I think if Campion himself was more engaging as a character, her fame would be greater. Nevertheless, she is one of the four Queens of Crime and rightly so.

I tried my hand at a ficlet. The best thing about Coroner's Pidgin was the love of Lugg for a pig.

Title: Silk purse in a sow's ear
Rating: Gen
Fandom: Campion - Margery Allingham
Characters/Pairing: Campion & Lugg
Prompt: loyal
Warnings: none
Notes: references to Coroner's Pidgin, the pink flower in question is also called 'red campion.'
Summary: In his retirement, Campion solicits Lugg's help on a case.

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All of Agatha: The Burden by Mary Westmacott

This series of entries is commentary on my lifelong quest to read all of Agatha Christie's works in UK publication order.


We are still in the 1950's with The Burden by Mary Westmacott (1956). Please don't read this book. It's about sisters and the tragedies that befall them and the Poor Life Choices they make. It plays with Christie's warped psychologies about relationships which tend to fall into the borderline personality disorder-type quagmires and codependent muck. Just don't.

But I had to get through it to get to the next one...

...4:50 from Paddington! One of my all time faves. Who doesn't need an Lucy Eyelesbarrow?!