Another Susan Hill recommendation. I have never read this author before, detective novels written I think in the 1950’s.
This was a curious mixture of a 1930’s (or later), (Christie, Sayers), and a derring do adventure story, reminded me at times of John Buchann.
The ‘private’ aristocratic detective hardly features at all except as a relative of various other characters, Luke from the yard is much more involved and developed.
A priest called, I think, Avril, is important to the plot which Ms Hill sees partly as a quasi-religious good (priest) vs evil (Jack Havoc, the killer) story.
The plot involves a chase through the very Dickensian London fog through to an island off Britanny is pursuit of some treasure.
Possibly this has dated, and I am not sure that I would read more Allingham.
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