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Violence
Barely any
Deaths in a family investigated; gentle golden age treatment without graphic violence
Language
Barely any
Allingham's elegant prose; minimal profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance abuse themes
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild puzzle-mystery tension; eccentric family dynamics provide most of the suspense
What this book is about
The thirteenth Albert Campion mystery takes the affable detective to a dingy London street where the eccentric Palinode family has been dying with unsettling frequency—and always of natural causes, or so it appears. When Campion begins looking into the deaths on behalf of an enterprising undertaker who has noticed the pattern, he discovers a household of brilliant, impractical scholars with murky pasts and tangled present-day finances. Allingham at her post-war best: warm, witty, and genuinely complex, with Campion's light touch concealing considerable emotional depth.
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