More Work for the Undertaker (The Albert Campion Mysteries Book 13)

Albert Campion's curiosity is piqued by a beggarwoman on a bench, leading Scotland Yard to involve him in a case centered on the eccentric Palinode family. Two family members have recently died, and police suspect poisoning. Campion goes undercover as a lodger in the boardinghouse where the family lives to investigate. The Palinode household proves unusual: members communicate in crossword puzzle clues, disappear at night, and maintain vats of pungent food in the basement as a cost-saving measure. As the recently deceased are exhumed, Campion navigates the family's peculiarities while the local undertaker becomes increasingly entangled in the case. This mystery features keen characterization, humor, and an old English atmosphere, set within a charmingly decadent family dynamic.