Black Plumes

By Margery Allingham

Book Overview

A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." --The New York Times Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553235907
• ISBN13: 9780553235906
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mystery without Campion, but still very good.

Just a warning--Campion does not appear in this book. But it is a good, solid mystery with a lot going for it.The action centers around the Ivory's art gallery, where a series of malicious pranks are causing problems. When a valuable painting is slashed right before an opening, things really come to a head. There's a pretend engagement, a man come back from the dead, an unscrupulous business manager, and finally, a murder. The ending is very exciting. My only complaints are that the policeman in charge of the case is more of a characture that a real person and that the identity of the weapon is not as much of a secret to the reader as it is to the police.