<p>A serial killer on the loose in the foggy, battle-scarred streets of London after the Second World War. Margery Allingham's The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) is Bleak House meets 1984 meets Silence of the Lambs. In this last in the current Queens of Crime series, Sophie and Jonty looks at how Allingham - more, perhaps, than the other Queens of Crime - evolved her craft to suit the changing world around her. She dials back the importance of her aristocratic front-man sleuth Campion (who she first introduced in 1929) to focus more on the grizzled, working-class detective Charlie Luke. This book is a stepping stone out of Christieland into the world of PD James and Ruth Rendell.</p><br><p>Become a subscriber by signing up at Apple: <a href="http://apple.co/slob" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://apple.co/slob</a></p><p>Or join our Patreon community here: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/c/secretlifeofbookspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/c/secretlifeofbookspodcast</a></p><p>Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>