Black Plumes

from thornton37814

Things aren't quite right at the Ivory household as we are introduced to Frances Ivory. Soon Robert is found dead and stuffed into a cupboard. A soft-spoken detective is the lead investigator into the affair, and soon a second corpse turns up. The solution is pretty obvious although one of her re...

from bcquinnsmom

While the director of the Ivory Art Gallery has been out of the country, someone has been vanadalizing the gallery. As if that weren't enough, someone's gone and killed the acting director, Mr. Robert Madrigal, the director's son-in-law. With a long list of suspects, the police certainly have the...

from MyopicBookworm

I enjoyed this much more than my previous encounter with Allingham. There are some splendidly drawn (if larger-than-life) characters, including the geriatric Gabrielle, the scheming underling Lucar, the slightly feckless artist David, and the explorer Godolphin; also some notable descriptive pass...

from BonnieJune54

It's different from most mysteries in that the main character is just worrying about the murder not trying to solve it. Didn't find the characters that interesting or likable. I want one or the other. The cover of my bantam edition incorrectly describes it as a Albert Campion mystery. He's not me...

from NormaDruid

I see from the other reviews that Allingham's characters here made some a little uncomfortable. Actually, I relished in them. Allingham was reared in a time when Victorian matriarchs were still visible in society, and she deftly captured one. Gabriele Ivory's actions and interactions give us as f...