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Coroner's Pidgin
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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I loved this book
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Publisher's summary
Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, Albert Campion is relaxing in his bath when his servant Lugg and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman.
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- Wadie
- 04-28-13
An enjoyable entry in the series
I love the era just before WWI and between WWI and WWII. I had read most of the Albert Campion Books years ago but this was a new one for me. The narration was interesting....I'm still not sure about the "voice" used for Albert but it might have grown on me! The mix of characters was delightful. I did figure out who the baddie was early but it didn't take away my enjoyment of the book at all. The mindset is of the characters is old fashioned but not wrong. There was a big surprise at the end and I was delighted by it. I hope to see more Albert Campion books available.
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- Sally Dobbs
- 11-14-16
Wonderfully exciting
Such an exciting and unusual
story well told. The best of Margery Allingham's great books. A great treat.
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- Poppisima
- 07-13-15
Best. Ending. Ever.
Strong story, great comedy, and the aforementioned ending add up to a fabulous entry in the series.
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- Ijw
- 03-02-22
master
author is a master of keeping you guessing until the end. interesting window into the period of world war II. how life goes on with a sub current.
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- peter
- 03-16-19
Great story
Witty, fast paced, excellent and amusing characters, very well read and a good mystery. Recommended.
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- F Ellen McDaniel
- 10-06-17
Terrible narrator!
Makes Campion sound like a shrill old woman. Reads too fast. So annoying that I abandoned the book mid way through.
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- Selu
- 09-09-22
Meh
Not her best. Too many characters. Both convoluted and forgettable. Much War Effort. No Amanda! (Boo Hiss!)
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- Sharon
- 06-21-21
boring detective and *meh* narration
Who is Albert Campion? Perhaps I should have started with book 1, but books 9 and 12 are the ones that are free included with membership, so those were my initiation into this series. I must say that after listening to both books, I have no idea who the main character is, what his personality is like, or what his motivations are for detecting. I can't even tell if he is particularly good at his job! He doesn't have any strong characteristics.
The narrator, David Thorpe, isn't bad exactly; he does a number of good voices and accents for other characters. However, the voice he uses for Albert Campion makes the detective seem like a silly idiot -- it is high, frivolous and inappropriately emotive in parts.
I'm not going to be spending any money or credits on other books in this series.
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- Hope
- 11-06-17
Overdone narration
I like the interesting plots in the Albert Campion series. I've read a lot of them before but coming back to them at this point in history I can't help but be sensitized to the racism in the books although it is not a major thing, it just is an underlying note.
The narrator is a competent narrator, but the choice was made to really overact. I belong to the camp that is not looking for a fully dramatized story. I do like to know who is speaking and to have it phrased well. David Thorpe takes the description of Albert Campion's voice in the text and goes to town with it and it is pretty awful to listen to. Some of the other characters are awfully voiced as well.
Given those two issues I have, I still listened to the whole book, taking breaks to listen to other books when I couldn't stand the squeaks and squeals.
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- Sue
- 03-06-21
Excellent.
I only discovered Margery Allingham quite recently. Another favourite author, Christopher Fowler, mentioned her in his Book of Forgotten Authors and, stumbling across her again here, I thought I would dip in.
I feel like I've struck a diamond mine and the more I dig, the bigger the diamonds get!
These books do not feel their age at all. They are as fresh as if they were written yesterday. Her turn of phrase, her characters, are very real. So much more alive than any of Christie's. Campion and Lugg are wonderful and their relationship matures as they age through the books.
There is no formula to the writing, she seems to dip in and out of various kinds of crime fiction. Every book is a journey that we embark on with her characters.
Sometimes they feel so written for TV! I wasn't surprised to find TV had made a stab at them, pretty successfully, but sadly only eight of the books.
Here, we find Albert with constant background anxiety about the need to catch a train. We want him to sort out the mystery so he can get his train. We are anxious with him! And yet it's written so lightly, so beautifully.
Excellent book!
Each one becomes my new favourite!
I shall be so sad when they run out.
Much is said about the wrongness of the narrator. I was startled by him in the first book and preferred Frances Matthews' reading of the second, but, now I'm deep in, I find I much prefer David Thorpe. He does the prep work to get tones and voices perfectly as written. He gives comic turn where appropriate but still gives gravitas to the more sombre patches. I love him.
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- Josephine
- 01-22-16
Excellent book that keeps you guessing right to the end
The reader brings the characters alive. He is a pleasure to listen to. The story complexity ensures you are kept guessing until the very end.
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- JillyB
- 07-07-13
Enjoyable read
Where does Coroner's Pidgin rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
In the top twenty but that top twenty changes all the time with the books I listen to AND still read.
What other book might you compare Coroner's Pidgin to, and why?
Probably a previous Campion novel
Which character – as performed by David Thorpe – was your favourite?
Lugg
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No - too nuanced for that.
Any additional comments?
Sometimes Marjorie Allingham wraps the book up too quickly. Still not sure how it was done this time!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-22-20
Narrator misses the mark
Such a wonderful story spoiled by the narrator’s voice for Campion that spills over into a parody of a between-the-war aristocratic accent: too squeaky, too high pitched.
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- Yael G.
- 02-02-21
Narration not brilliant
At times I really had a hard time with the narrator and that made the story hard to follow.
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- mel white
- 01-02-21
narrator spoiled it
The high falsetto voice chosen for Campion made me visualise him as a pantomime dame
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- Miss Julie E. Ellis
- 05-31-17
fantastic campion
loved it all campion series is so good .brilliantly penned. golden age authors are great
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- Avid Kindler
- 01-31-23
Awful voice for poor Albert
Sadly the absurdly high wobbly voice produced for Albert Campion has made this unbearable to listen to. I always enjoyed Francis Matthews reading these books. Such a shame that so few of his recordings are available on Audible.
Love the book. Hate this recording.
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- Mrs. C. Hunt
- 12-15-21
Coroner's Pidgin
This mystery has you guessing who are friends and who are enemies. Read brilliantly again by David Thorpe.
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- Ruth
- 12-08-21
Another delightful story
Having just rediscovered Margery Allingham, I find myself gripped by her excellent story telling. Plenty to keep you listening as the tale twist and turns. I have come to terms with the narration, not the best but, not enough to put me off downloading more of Albert Campion.
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When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.
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I LIKE this narrator quite a lot!!!!
- By Meep on 11-16-13
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Look to the Lady
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Gyrth family had guarded the Chalice for hundreds of years. It was held by them for the Crown. Its antiquity, its beauty, the extraordinary legends that were connected with it, all combined to make it unique of its kind. It was irreplaceable. No thief could hope to dispose of it in the ordinary way. And indeed no ordinary thief would dream of trying. But there are others besides those who make their living by robbery, others whose immense wealth and passion for collecting render them less immune to the practical considerations that must guide even the less honestly minded citizens.
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Love the start to this one, like the reader
- By Meep on 11-16-13
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The Tiger in the Smoke
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose on the streets of London once again. In the faded squares of shabby houses, in the furtive alleys and darkened pubs, the word is out that the Tiger is back in town, more vicious and cunning than ever. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city's November smog before it is too late.
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Not really a mystery-unique among Campions
- By Meep on 11-19-13
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The Mind Readers
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career.As urbane as Lord Wimsey.as ingenious as Poirot. Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.
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Satisfying!
- By L. May on 08-09-16
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Traitor's Purse
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Campion investigates once more, but this time he is on the run from the police - classic British crime writing at its best. Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of vital importance to His Majesty's government before his accident. On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancée
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One of Allingham's best
- By Bookwormish on 11-21-15
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More Work for the Undertaker
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.
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Once again Allingham draws a complete picture of a past time
- By Poppisima on 07-22-15
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The Crime at Black Dudley
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.
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I LIKE this narrator quite a lot!!!!
- By Meep on 11-16-13
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Look to the Lady
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The Gyrth family had guarded the Chalice for hundreds of years. It was held by them for the Crown. Its antiquity, its beauty, the extraordinary legends that were connected with it, all combined to make it unique of its kind. It was irreplaceable. No thief could hope to dispose of it in the ordinary way. And indeed no ordinary thief would dream of trying. But there are others besides those who make their living by robbery, others whose immense wealth and passion for collecting render them less immune to the practical considerations that must guide even the less honestly minded citizens.
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Love the start to this one, like the reader
- By Meep on 11-16-13