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Welcome
Introduction & Biography
Title Listings
- Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Romances & Adventures
- Autobiographical
- Writing as 'Maxwell March'
- Notes on the Title Listings
- Short Story Cross Reference
'Campion' (BBC TV)
Bibliography & Links
the Margery Allingham Society
Credits, Thanks & Mail
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- The Tiger in the Smoke (Heinemann, 1952)
Somwehere in the Smoke, fog-bound London, a knife-wielding
madman is on the loose.
Yet, on the eve of her marriage to Geoffrey Levett, Meg Elginbrodde
has other, greater concerns. She has come to terms with the death
of her little-loved first husband, Martin, who was thought to
have died during the War. However now someone has sent her photographs,
purporting to be of Martin Elginbrodde, very much alive.
The Tiger in the Smoke is the only novel of Margery Allingham's
to have ever been made into a film. The film, produced by the
Rank Organisation (who were also behind classic films like 'Brief
Encounter', to name but one), was released in 1956, and as soon
as I can find enough information, I'll build a little page for
it. Until such time as the film is released on video, there is
little more to tell, except that all reports indicate that Albert
Campion does not appear in the feature at all!
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The Tiger in the Smoke from Amazon.co.uk
The Penguin edition can be supplemented by or replaced by
the American edition, available from the link below.
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The Tiger in the Smoke from Amazon.com
The most recent American edition of Tiger, one of the
few Allingham books currently in print in the US.
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The Tiger in the Smoke in Audio cassette format from Amazon.co.uk
Read by Francis Matthews, star of radio and television. Complete
and unabridged.
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The Tiger in the Smoke in an abridged edition from Amazon UK.
Read by Crawford Logan.
Crawford Logan portrayed Der Voot in Radio 4's mammoth adaptation
of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. He has
also appeared in Doctor Who (the spiny Tom Baker adventure
'Meglos') and The Archers, and has also performed an audio
adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders, which means
that I finally have an excuse to mention two of my amusements,
detective fiction and the novels of Thomas Hardy, in the same
breath.
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The
Tiger in the Smoke, abridged edition, Random House Audiobooks,
1997. Read by Patrick Malahide.
Sadly, this edition appears to be out of print. It would be
interesting to hear Malahide's version of Campion, as he is well
known for portraying another detective of the approximately same
era on the small screen, that being Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn.
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