In discussing this week's review of Margery Allingham's "More Work for the Undertaker" with a reader this week, I was reminded that it has been a few years since I wrote about what is certainly one of her best novels.
"Flowers for the Judge" is a wonderful story, a traditional mystery with some thriller moments. It begins with an impossible situation: a man walks out of his house one morning - and quite literally disappears before he reaches the end of the street. Twenty years later, his family becomes deeply involved in a murder case, and Albert Campion has to enter the case to tie all the events together and save an innocent man.
It is a beautifully written book, with one of the most perfect closing lines of any mystery I have ever read. If you have never read Allingham, it is a fine introduction to Allingham and to Campion as well.
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