Phillip Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
Originally published in 1969, and reportedly based on an idea by Margery Allingham, this novel featuring Albert Campion was written by her husband Phillip Youngman Carter, after her death. Here we see the Campion mysteries updated for the Cold War with elements of espionage. Inglewood Turrets, in the north of London, is the sort of faux-Victorian-genteel hotel that pays homage to a British past that never really existed. Never mind, the tourists love it. Or some of them do. Vassily Kopeck (code-name: "Farthing"), a Russian diplomat, has disappeared after a trip to the Turrets, and Mr. Campion has been asked to sort out the situation. It's a challenge, but he has an able assistant: Young Rupert Campion, making his debut appearance!

Who's Likely to Like This?
Fans of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the Golden Age of Mystery Fiction

Phillip Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing. The 20th Albert Campion Mystery. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 9781631940019 (December, 2014), 264 p., $14.95.

Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
Mr Campion's Farthing is worth considerably more than a quarter of an old penny. For Farthing is the code name of Vassily Kopeck - missing diplomat.

Kopeck was last seen at Inglewood Turrets where Lottie Cambric sells a vision of Victorian culture and luxury. And now the vultures are gathering around the Turrets. Outside - all sorts of spies, greedy developers and strangers in the shrubbery. Inside - an arsonist and a murderer in the vaults and a hijacked party in the dining room. Lottie and her friend Albert Campion are in the middle - of danger...

Youngman Carter, husband of Margery Allingham, continued the adventures of her famous detective after her death.

Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing. Penguin, ISBN: 0140032312 (January, 1994), 190 p., £4.99.

Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing (UK 1971)

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Backside:
The late Margery Allingham created the character and the idea. Her husband and collaborator brings back Albert Campion in this witty and elegantly convoluted thriller.

Kopeck has vanished with the diabolical formula. His compatriot Marak seeks him. So does Campion. The search brings mayhem and high jinks plus the most outrageous characters to Inglewood Turrets - 'a mongrel by St Pancras out of Holloway Gaol' - where Perdita, Lottie and Rupert (actor-butler-agent) simulate late nineteenth-century cultural elegance for foreign culture-vultures.

Inside:
Youngman Carter was born in Watford in 1904 and was educated at Christ's Hospital. In the late nineteen twenties he became an etcher and a designer of book jackets. In 1927 he married Margery Allingham, the writer of detective stories. He collaborated in many of her early stories, which no doubt accounts for the ease with which he took over the career of Albert Campion after his wife's death in 1966, when he completed her unfinished Cargo of Eagles.

In the Second World War he served in the Western Desert and in the Near East. He was one of the co-founders and later an editor of Soldier Magazine. In 1946 he became features editor of the Daily Express, and he subsequently worked for the Tatler as assistant editor and later as editor. He also founded and edited The Compleat Imbiber. In 1957 he left Fleet Street, resumed his career as an artist, and wrote several wine books and travel books, as well as working on his autobiography.

He died in 1969 after an operation for lung cancer.

Author's Note
This story is based on an idea originated by my wife, Margery Allingham, who died in 1966.
She and I collaborated in many of her books over a period of forty years, particularly in the working out of details of the plots.

It had been her original intention to write Mr Campion's Farthing before her last book, Cargo of Eagles, but she changed her mind, largely I think because 'Cargo' involves events which could only have taken place twenty years after the end of the last war.

Before she died she charged me specifically to continue with the stories which she and I used to devise together. The unfinished Cargo of Eagles I completed in her name but the present work is hers only in as much she inspired it and the memory of her last request provided the essential spur.

Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing. Penguin, ISBN: 0140032312 (March, 1971), 191 p., 25p, 5/-.

Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing (USA 1970)

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THE HUNTED MAN
carried a secret with him that the Super Powers wanted and a Super Sleuth was determined to uncover. The man's disappearance had already cost too many lives-and Inspector Campion knew it would cost more.

But the clues were buried under a mountain of intrigues and counterplots and the time was growing short.

Murder was about to pay another call...

Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing. The number of victims was mounting. New York: MacFadden-Bartell, 1970, MB #341, 219 p., &cen;75.

Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing (USA 1969)

From the Publisher:
Albert Campion, the great fictional detective who was created by the late Margery Allingham, lives on under the adroit pen of her husband, Youngman Carter.

Mr. Campion's Farthing
By YOUNGMAN CARTER

Before Margery Allingham died, she specifically charged Youngman Carter to continue with the Campion stories, many of which, through the years, they had devised together.

Margery Allingham's last book, Cargo of Eagles, was completed by Mi. Carter in his wife's name and elicited this comment from Punch:

"Hard to tell where her devoted collaborator's hand took over, justifying hope of more new stories."

Mr. Campion's Farthing more than justifies that hope. It concerns a missing Russian scientist whose whereabouts are of considerable interest to several gov-(continued from front flap) emments, and, of course, to that eminent detective, Mr. Albert Campion.

Campion's chief concern is for his friend, Lottie Cambric, for it was at her estate, Inglewood Turrets, the scientist last had been seen. But that utterly charming, theatrical and quick-witted lady shrugs off all questions, saying, "He was here, he left, and that's it."

Mr. Campion doesn't believe her. Neither do the Russians, and thereby hangs this witty, urbane, and tightly plotted tale.

YOUNGMAN CARTER and Margery Allingham shared the same studio in their lovely home on the Essex coast, and it was her custom to discuss with him every move, chapter and paragraph of a story before finishing the first draft. This, no doubt, is a contributing factor to the ease with which Mr. Carter has taken over the career of Albert Campion and the integrity with which the distinguished detective is recreated. Mr. Carter is also author and illustrator of On to Andorra, a travel book, and was former editor of The Tatler.

Youngman Carter: Mr Campion's Farthing. An Albert Campion Mystery. From an Idea by Margery Allingham. New York: William Morrow, 1969, 219 p., $4.95.