Postwar London. The bridegroom and the bride. The bride is blackmailed: her husband, who was officially reported dead by accident, has been resurrected and turned up on newspaper pages in the background of unclear photographs. The new wedding may not happen. Almost immediately it becomes clear that it isn’t her husband at all, but some crafty people trying to get hold of the documents of the dead man—documents in which he left information about a hidden treasure.
“Tiger in the Fog” made it into the list of the best 100 detective novels of the 20th century, according to the Association of Detective Literature Bookshops. The only filmed novel.
Marjorie Allingham is a famous English writer, the author of more than 30 detective novels, including the popular series about Albert Campion. In her novels there is everything: satire and humor, murders and blackmail, love and intrigue. M. Allingham’s books are just as tense and gripping as the works of Agatha Christie, with whom she is often compared. A new meeting with Albert Campion will be a great pleasure for fans of Marjorie Allingham’s talent. The young detective follows the trail of a mysterious criminal organization. The hunt is on for Judge Lobbett. But, tragically or simply by pure chance, someone else dies every time…