Police at the Funeral (Albert Campion series book #4) by Margery Allingham (first published 1931) '-' The imperious Caroline Faraday runs her house like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact that it is 1931. Furniture and meals are heavy and elaborate, motorcars and morning tea forbidden. The middle-aged children chafe, but stay for money, until one turns up dead, then his sister, and Albert Campion investigates. "Miss Allingham is one of the few writers who can deal with art. Both her passions and her patterns are beautiful, accurate and serene". -- Daily Telegraph.




