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Paperback – 1 Dec. 2005. This is a vintage murder mystery. JK Rowling called The Tiger In The Smoke 'a phenomenal novel'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose on the streets of London once again. In the faded squares of shabby houses ...
- Margery Allingham
31 de ago. de 2021 · The Tiger in the Smoke. In this crime novel by Margery Allingham, the haunting atmosphere of post-war London sets the stage for a web of mystery and intrigue. Meg Elginbrodde, a young widow desperate for answers about her missing husband, is thrust into a world of uncertainty as enigmatic photographs arrive, hinting at a secret truth.
13 de set. de 2023 · The Tiger in the Smoke is set in the early 1950s, so perhaps Miss Elginbrodde’s hat resembled the ones in this advertisement from 1952: the clamp cap…an artful twist of felt or velvet, standing pat on your pretty head…with beguiling matching veil…black, brown, navy felt or velvet...felt also in white, or beige or grey tweed…8.95
9 de jan. de 2007 · But “Tiger” is one of the books on HRF Keating’s list of 100 best mysteries that I hadn’t read so when a friend pointed out this kindle book for $2.99 I picked it up. A few pages into “The Tiger in the Smoke”, I remembered why Golden Age was my genre of preference.
- Margery Allingham
The Plot. A fog is creeping through he weary streets of London. So too are whispers that the Tiger is back in town, undetected by the law, untroubled by the law, untroubled by morals. And the rumours are true: Jack Havoc, charismatic outlaw, knife wielding killer and ingenious jail breaker, is on the loose once again.
18 de mai. de 2017 · Tiger in the Smoke was certainly a good choice for me. The pea soup for in London added just the right ingredients for the beginning of a Lord Peter Whimsey mystery and with diverse characters, all well described, twists and turns nonstop I will have to wait for a few months and read it again.
- Margery Allingham
16 de mai. de 2017 · Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic tit...
