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Sweet Danger

By: Margery Allingham
Narrated by: Franis Matthews
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Way back during the Crusades, Richard I presented the Huntingforest family with the tiny Balkan state of Averna but since then the kingdom has been forgotten, until circumstances in Europe suddenly render it extremely strategically important to the British government. They hire unconventional detective Albert Campion to recover the long-missing proofs of ownership - the deeds, a crown, and a receipt - which are apparently hidden in the village of Pontisbright.

On arriving in Pontisbright, Campion and his friends meet the eccentric, young, flame-haired Amanda Fitton and her family who claim to be the rightful heirs to Averna and join in the hunt. Unfortunately, criminal financier Brett Savanake is also interested in finding the evidence for his own ends.

©1934 Margery Allingham (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime
Engaging Plot • Witty Storytelling • Excellent Narration • Intriguing Mystery
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Many standard Campion features with a nostalgic charming old English environment and the heroes and heroines triumph over the crooks. A change

Enchanting Champion Story

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Delightful characters! So very British in the funniest way. My favorite Campion so far— children’s books for adults. The mill is a wondrous place-hope this setting and these characters show up again in future books. (I am just reading through the series for the first time ever-well, listening through.)

Wildly Improbable and Perfect!

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More a beginning of the love story rather than a mystery but with fun old fashion clues. M. Allingham characters already well known to be skillfully developed and warmly remembered. Narrator F. Matthew's Campion very well done. American accents not well done by this narrator nor by "the other guy." That is a minor annoyance in the face of wonderful voicing of Campion.

The Beginning of the love story

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Sweet Danger is a campy sort of mystery, though the mystery really isn't much of a mystery. Campion is drool and amusing as he and a group of friends try to find the true heir to a piece of strategic property in a far off Balkan country. We get to meet the eccentric Finton family, in particular young Lady Amanda Finton, who scrape by running a mill. The Finton's hold the keys to the mystery. Lady Amanda likes to tinker with electricity, batteries, and radio. The bad guy and his cronies are obvious from the start.

Francis Matthews is a wonderful narrator. I prefer him to David Thorpe, whose Campion I find grating..

A Campy Campion

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I love Margery Allingham's characters and her stories. This story is not typical of Allingham's Campion mysteries. It is a bit more tounge-in-cheek and there is no murderer to catch but rather a puzzle to be solved in order to lay claim to a strategically important piece of land. (The story is set in England just before WWII.) Like her other Campion mysteries, Campion is as dour as ever and is counter balanced by his "man" Lugg and other supporting characters. I particularly liked Amanda Fitton's resourcefulness, spunk and courage. The story is well told, the characters are realistic, the villan is scary and everybody's psychological motivations are crystal clear. The mystery will hook you and your concern about the fate of the characters will keep you involved. I had trouble turning it off.

Funny and engaging Campion mystery

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Having watched the TV version I was curious about the original. It is different in some places but substantially the same. I was a bit prejudiced against the narrator because I love David Thorpe so much, but he was quite good. Highly unlikely and entertaining!

Convoluted and fun

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Good narration and interesting story albeit typical Albert Campian novel. Liked how the setting of the mill is used.

Good plot and enough twists for interest

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Albert Campion mysteries are an acquired taste I have finally acquired, thanks to the masterful deft reading by Francis Matthews.

Does this mystery have a convoluted plot that you somehow learn to accept? Yes, indeed. Please don’t ever make me synopsis it! Is there a bizarre B plot that somehow intersects with the main plot? Yea, again. But the reason I am willing to go on these rollercoaster rides constructed by Margery Allingham is that I love spending time with her characters who she also clearly loved. The mysteriously brilliant Campion, he of the vacuous face and upper crust accent. His henchman, the hilarious endearing Lugg. And now in this one the introduction of Amanda who we will meet again in future books. Unique, brilliant, courageous, charming, beautiful in her own special way, a 17 year old wizard with a dynamo and an electric car she operates out of an old family mill—I could read a hundred books with Amanda at the center and I hope some appreciative mystery writer has written these sequels. Wish I had met Amanda when I was 17 and looking for great characters to identify with.

If you are on the fence about Campion books as I was, I don’t know if this is the one to start with as the plot is especially preposterous. On the other hand, some of MA’s books are undermined by some prejudices of hers (including the use of the n-word by characters which may have been de rigeur for the 1930s but I think the publisher could emend those just a bit without caving to woke pressure) and I didn’t detect any of that here.

In any case, here’s to Francis Matthews who is so sensitive and fluid a reader and switches accents at the turn of a dime, reading tense descriptions of exciting moments with all the nuance they deserve.

One of the Best Female Characters Ever

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Well, we have a mysterious hero doing a mysterious job for his government. A few items must be found. A treasure hunt?
We have a disinherited member of nobility who is seeking recognition and his estates. A little Crusade history. A Demonic Doctor with an equisite cellar and a red haired lass who runs an electric car and a windmill. And the baddies also on a hunt.

It is a delightful listen. Not at all serious.

For its genre an interesting adventure

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This is one of my favourite books in the series, read beautifully by Francis Matthews. Seriously. The man captures the characters in ways that other
narrators of these books just can not touch. (Okay, there is the one sentence where he accidentally makes Mary sound like Aunt Hat, but that doesn't bother me.)

Breathing hops and confidence...

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