The China Governess

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The China Governess

By: Margery Allingham

Narrated by: David Thorpe

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Timothy Kinnit needs Albert Campion's help. He is rich, handsome and successful but his past is a mystery to him and he needs Campion to find out how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum.

In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of his own - involving a murderous 19th-century governess - that must also be brought to life by Campion's investigations. An Albert Campion mystery.

Margery AllinghamDavid ThorpeAudible StudiosAlbert Campion

Crime Fiction

Mystery

Suspense

Thriller & Suspense

Fiction

Crime

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"Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world" (Tatler)

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This Campion story was just a bit impenetrable to me I'm afraid so rather disappointing