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* GenreAdultery: The Campion books might be billed as mystery stories, but Margery Allingham often switched between genres (helped by the fact that Campion was quite versatile). Sure, she had whodunnits and country house murders, but there were also adventure novels, thrillers, comedies of manners, secret agent thrillers, mild science fiction, and mild fantasy/horror.
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* ValuesDissonance: The modern reader's sympathies are likely to abruptly reorient themselves when the Cause of Wicked Cousin George's blackmail of Great Aunt Caroline is revealed in ''Police at the Funeral'' ([[spoiler:George's mother was of mixed race]])
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* ValuesDissonance: The modern reader's sympathies are likely to abruptly reorient themselves when the Cause of Wicked Cousin George's blackmail of Great Aunt Caroline is revealed in ''Police at the Funeral'' ([[spoiler:George's mother was of mixed race]])race]])
** The books also make not infrequent use of the n-word when referring to Africans, particularly in The Fashion In Shrouds, in which Campion also tells his own sister Val that she is in need of 'a good cry or a good rape'. While the latter acts as a set up for Val to cut down the argument that women who are emotional just need to get laid (consenting or otherwise), it can be hard to feel sympathy for Campion after that.
** The books also make not infrequent use of the n-word when referring to Africans, particularly in The Fashion In Shrouds, in which Campion also tells his own sister Val that she is in need of 'a good cry or a good rape'. While the latter acts as a set up for Val to cut down the argument that women who are emotional just need to get laid (consenting or otherwise), it can be hard to feel sympathy for Campion after that.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Allingham passed away in the middle of writing a Campion novel. It was finished by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, who later wrote two more Campion novels of his own. They're remembered as pretty mediocre, if they're remembered at all.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Allingham passed away in the middle of writing a Campion novel. It was finished by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, who later wrote two more Campion novels of his own. They're remembered as pretty mediocre, if they're remembered at all.
* GenreAdultery: The Campion books might be billed as mystery stories, but Margery Allingham often switched between genres (helped by the fact that Campion was quite versatile). Sure, she had whodunnits and country house murders, but there were also adventure novels, thrillers, comedies of manners, secret agent thrillers, mild science fiction, and mild fantasy/horror.
* GenreAdultery: The Campion books might be billed as mystery stories, but Margery Allingham often switched between genres (helped by the fact that Campion was quite versatile). Sure, she had whodunnits and country house murders, but there were also adventure novels, thrillers, comedies of manners, secret agent thrillers, mild science fiction, and mild fantasy/horror.
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* ValuesDissonance: The modern reader's sympathies are likely to abruptly reorient themselves when the Cause of Wicked Cousin George's blackmail of Great Aunt Caroline is revealed in ''Police at the Funeral'' ([[spoiler: George's mother was of mixed race]])
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* ValuesDissonance: The modern reader's sympathies are likely to abruptly reorient themselves when the Cause of Wicked Cousin George's blackmail of Great Aunt Caroline is revealed in ''Police at the Funeral'' ([[spoiler: George's ([[spoiler:George's mother was of mixed race]])
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* ValuesDissonance: The modern reader's sympathies are likely to abruptly reorient themselves when the Cause of Wicked Cousin George's blackmail of Great Aunt Caroline is revealed in ''Police at the Funeral'' ([[spoiler: George's mother was of mixed race]])
