Death of a GhostFirst published by William Heinemann Ltd 1934 |
NOTE ON MR ALBERT CAMPION
This young man is an adventurer in the prettiest sense of the word,
and his activities, which I have chronicled for some years, seem to
fall into two disticnt classes. There are those which have been
frankly picaresque, as in the affair at 'Mystery Mile', the business
at Pontisbright, published under the title of 'Sweet Danger', and
several others. But now and again he comes up against less highly
coloured but even more grave difficulties, as in the Cambridge tragedy,
'Police at the Funeral', and now in this present story.
The two types of experience are distinct and it is perhaps surprising
that they should touch the same person. However, most of us have a
serious as well as a lighter side, and Mr Campion is no exception to
the rule.
M.A.
He wanted lasting fame and left instructions to his wife, Belle, for one painting to be exhibited every year after his death. Eight years later in Little Venice, a select group of friends and family gather to view the eighth painting. They are treated instead to murder. the lights go down, and a young man is stabbed to death.
Albert Campion is one of the guests, and in his deceptively calm way he gets to work on the baffling case, with its long - suspiciously long -line-up of possible killers. Soon Campion finds himself having to face his dearest enemy...