Book · 1952 · Fiction

The Tiger in the Smoke

Name: The Tiger in the Smoke
Author: Margery Allingham

Publisher not found · 288 pages

★ 4.6 editorial score

A war widow receives photographs of the husband she buried. The trail runs into a London fog where the killer Jack Havoc is loose, and Allingham makes the thriller an argument about evil.

Genre

Mystery Thriller Detective fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

Evil Crime

Setting

London

Time

1952Depicts Post-War EuropeDepicts 1950s

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