Police at the Funeral: Albert Campion #4 (Volume 4)

Police at the Funeral: Albert Campion #4 (Volume 4) by Allingham, Margery. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781933397641.

Caroline Faraday runs her house like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact that its 1931. Furniture and meals are heavy and elaborate, motorcars and morning tea are forbidden on account of vulgarity. The Faraday children, now well into middle age, chafe at the restrictions, but with no money of their own, they respond primarily by quarreling amongst themselves. Their endless squabbling is tedious but nothing more until one of them turns up dead, followed shortly by his petulant, whining sister. Though neither will be much missed, decency demands that Caroline Faraday hire the nearly respectable Albert Campion to investigate their untimely ends.