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More Work for the Undertaker

Name: More Work for the Undertaker
Author: Margery Allingham

by Margery Allingham

1948•Mystery•255 pages

Taste attributes: mysterydetectivecrimefresh & originalintricatelinearenclosedsolving the riddle/not as it seemsrescue/escape/jeopardy

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Boxlist takeA smart mystery, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like puzzles over plain sailing.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: intricate · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

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3.5 / 5

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About This Book

Campion takes up local lodgings on Apron Street in London, a place where urchins abound and a quasi-feudal ordered is maintained by the eccentric Palinode family, when a threat is sensed and the police are baffled.

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

MysteryDetectiveCrimeSolving the riddle/not as it seemsRescue/escape/jeopardy

Subjects

Private investigatorsMystery and detective storiesEngland

Details

Author: Margery Allingham
Published: 1948
Pages: 255
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Source: Open Library

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