The Tiger in the Smoke: Albert Campion, #14 Review

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(More customer reviews)"Tiger in the Smoke" is Margery Allingham's 14th Albert Campion mystery, and it is a mystery masterpiece peopled by a cast of fascinating characters. World War II has ended and, after 5 years, war widow Meg Elginbrodde is planning to re-marry. But she receives photos that seem to show her first husband still alive and living in London. She meets with Campion, who brings in his old friends at Scotland Yard.
Thus begins a series of events that include characters from previous Campion stories and a new group of characters from London's darker side. (Incidently, "Smoke" is Cockney slang for London.)
It is wonderful to see how family and friends from previous Campion adventures have moved on in the world. And the street people and more accomplished crooks that have emerged from WWII are truly frightening.
There are several mysteries to be solved: Is Meg's first husband still alive? If not, what is behind the photos? How do the relatively lawless street people know Meg's upstanding first husband? What has happened to Meg's fiance? Who is Jack Havoc and where did he come from?
Allingham moves from group to group, and event to event, defining the characters as she goes. She intricately weaves two very different groups together to deliver a final clash of worlds.
Margery Allingham is one of the giants of British mystery writers. She died over 40 years ago. But her books and characters are still exciting today. I hope the Albert Campion series will soon be available on Kindle.

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London, 'the Smoke' to Cockneys and the hipsters who appropriate their slang, is living up to its nickname: an unusual cold snap has combined with the fug from coal-fires to produce the 'Great Smog', blanketing the city in choking shadow. And lurking in those shadows is Jack Havoc, a killer with a particular fondness for knives. Havoc is by far the most dangerous villain that Albert Campion has ever encountered, and his startlingly realistic menace, combined with the light touch common to all the Campion novels, gives the book a modern feel, as it straddles a line between Golden Age detective fiction and contemporary psychological suspense.

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