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The Mind Readers

An Albert Campion Mystery

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The Mind Readers

By: Margery Allingham
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it.

Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career. As urbane as Lord Wimsey.as ingenious as Poirot. Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

©2008 Margery Allingham (P)2013 Audible Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Fiction Crime Suspense

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Critic reviews

"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. Everything she writes has a definite shape...each book has its own separate and distinctive background" ( Agatha Christie)
"Miss Allingham has a strong, well controlled sense of humour, a power of suggesting character with a few touches and an excellent English style. She has a sense of the fantastic, and is never dull" ( Times Literary Supplement)
"The real queen of crime" ( Guardian)
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loved it all campion series is so good .brilliantly penned. golden age authors are great

loved it all campion series is so good.

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I'm usually a great fan of Margery Allingham but I found this story very difficult to follow and completely unbelievable.

very poor.

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Classic MA, quite science fiction in flavour - meets old world UK. Plenty of action and great characterisation by the narrator. Enjoyable to the end.

Exciting story - twists and turns

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this is admittedly one of the more complex Campion plots and with the benefit of several decades of hindsight the technology does seem a bit unlikely , however I don't think it bears the one star reviews slating it , yes it has several groups of characters but they do all come together and need to be there to offer the alternative scenarios without giving the game away the eventual explanation of who is behind the sinister new technology is quite clever .
maybe it's just me but I was able to follow the characters and plot fine and although not one of her best it was perfectly listenable .

Not that bad !

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this is the last written by Margery Allingham that l could find with my dear Albert, i have loved them all except perhaps this one, didn't enjoy the story line at all, dont miss Mike. Ripley version of Albert

confusing

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Very into the future story line, with a great mystery along the way, read brilliantly again by David Thorpe.

The Mind Readers

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I never was much good with stories of espionage! I found this difficult to follow and probably proved I'm a bear of little brain

Confusing

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Highly complex plot as you would expect from this spy/mystery story - but great fun as always.

Complex

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First time I’ve not liked one of these books in this series, very long and I switched off several times

This was a long book….

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This book is just not suitable for an audiobook. So many characters, so many names, so many events to follow. It would be confusing enough with a paperback but probably doable, as I could look back at some sections and take some notes with character names etc. It would probably help to have a character name before each section, but still, mightily confusing. Head-hopping, character soup. It's not author's best work. Still, some books are just compliecated like that, and producers should know better than to record them. I know, market, money, yes. But don't be surprised when one star reviews show up...

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