The Crime at Black Dudley

by

Margery Allingham

First published 1929

Published in Penguin Books 1950

Contents

I[Candle-Light]
II[The Ritual of the Dagger]
III[In the Garage]
IV[Murder]
V[The Mask]
VI[Mr Campion Brings the House Down]
VII[Five o’clock in the Morning]
VIII[Open Warfare]
IX[Chris Kennedy Scores a Try Only]
X[The Impetuous Mr Abbershaw]
XI[One Explanation]
XII[‘Furthermore . . .’ said Mr Campion]
XIII[Abbershaw Sees Red]
XIV[Abbershaw Gets His Interview]
XV[Doctor Abbershaw’s Deductions]
XVI[The Militant Mrs Meade]
XVII[In the Evening]
XVIII[Mr Kennedy’s Council]
XIX[Mr Campion’s Conjuring Trick]
XX[The Round-Up]
XXI[The Point of View of Benjamin Dawlish]
XXII[The Darkest Hour]
XXIII[An Error in Taste]
XXIV[The Last of Black Dudley]
XXV[Mr Watt Explains]
XXVI[‘Cherchez la Femme’]
XXVII[A Journey by Night]
XXVIII[Should a Doctor Tell?]
XXIX[The Last Chapter]

To
‘THE GANG’

CHAPTER I
Candle-Light

The view from the narrow window was dreary and inexpressibly lonely. Miles of neglected park-land stretched in an unbroken plain to the horizon and the sea beyond. On all sides it was the same.