Mystery Mile (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. A Golden Age remote English village puzzle of a mysterious stranger, classic detection, and suspenseful twists for fans of vintage crime fictionBy Margery Allingham
Length3h 2m
About this audiobook
Mystery Mile (1930) installs Albert Campion as a fully fledged detective, orchestrating the rescue of an American judge marked for assassination by the shadowy mastermind Simister. Spiriting his charge to a remote English village, Allingham sets a Golden Age puzzle within a thriller's frame: fêtes and lanes offset ciphers and sudden death. The prose is quicksilver—urbane banter shading into menace—and the architecture is tiered with feints, red herrings, and a bravura disappearance. The novel also introduces Campion's ex-burglar valet, Lugg, sharpening its blend of comedy and moral grit. Allingham, raised in a professional writing household and steeped in East Anglian landscapes, brought to crime fiction a dramatist's ear and a journalist's economy. Emerging from magazine fiction and the success of The Crime at Black Dudley, she refines here a character who began as a playful parody into a credible moral intelligence, channeling interwar anxieties about clandestine syndicates and the porous Atlantic world. This is essential reading for devotees of the Golden Age and newcomers alike: elegant yet propulsive, slyly comic yet genuinely disquieting. If you admire Christie's ingenuity or Sayers's social acuity, Mystery Mile offers both, with an added tincture of romance and atmosphere that lingers beyond the final revelation.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length3 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
5Mystery Mile
2Introduction
6Analysis
3Synopsis
7Reflection
4Historical Context
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