The Tiger in the Smoke, (Hardcover)

from bunwat

This is a terrific book with extremely vivid and particular characters and an absolutely palpable atmosphere of menace as a dangerous man stalks through islands of brightly lit places isolated and disconnected from one another by the encroaching fog. Whew. The woman could write all right.

from monado

The Smoke" is London, England. Meg Elginbrooke asks Albert Campion to investigate: she keeps receiving photographs that look like her husband, declared missing in the Great War and believed dead five years before. Is he alive? Or is someone imitating him and if so, why? The action culminates in a...

from JustAGirl

Excellent detective novel, featuring the magnificent Albert Campion, complete with mistaken identities, buried treasure, a cast of entertaining characters and a thick London pea-souper!

from bezoar44

A band of series characters - all well drawn - deal with a number of villains, including a ruthless murderer escaped from prison and bent on revenge, in the midst of a dense London fog. There's not a lot of mystery, but there is great tension. Beyond the plot, the book also sets up a tension betw...

from yosarian

A fog bound mystery, less a detective story in the sense that there is not much detection to it, certainly there are no clues for the reader to follow and make sense of; it is all too clear (unlike the foggy London streets), Jack Havoc is on the loose and bent on destruction and revenge ... This ...