Dancers in Mourning

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Dancers in Mourning is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1937, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York; later U.S. versions used the title Who Killed Chloe?.

It is the ninth novel to star the mysterious Albert Campion, aided as usual by his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg.

[edit] Plot summary

An old friend of Albert Campion has written a successful book that has been turned into a hit musical comedy. But the star of the musical is the victim of pranks, some harmless, and some very serious. So Campion is brought in to find the joker and save the play.

But one of the cast dies, and it is no longer a just a joker Campion must find.

Campion must deal with high strung entertainers and his own emotions as he tries to find out if a murder even happened, and who is still playing tricks on the star and his family.

[edit] Adaptations

The story has twice been adapted for television for the BBC; in 1959, and again in 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion and Brian Glover as Lugg.

[edit] External links

• Dancers in Mourning (1959) at the Internet Movie Database
• Dancers in Mourning (1990) at the Internet Movie Database