Sweet Danger is great fun, but somehow for me it always feels like the last bit of the "juvenile phase" for Campion. I can't quite decide if Amanda is fully realised in her first appearance; for me it's really the (interesting if problematic) Fashion in Shrouds where she really comes into docus

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I saw *parts of* the adaptations when younger, but they never registered particularly; I think it was solely through the 2nd hand Penguins that I got into her oeuvre.

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Davison is perfectly fine, but I can't help wishing for a modern remake where they are a little less beholden to the conventions and production constraints of those adaptations. There was a window about 10-15 years ago when I think Nicholas Lyndhurst would have made a good post-war Campion

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I always have a suspicion that "Peter and Harriet" are supposed to be more well-rounded chracters, or a more deeply portrayed relationship, than "Albert and Amanda". But if I'm honest, I'll pick the latter over the former any time

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I'm never confident that I can claim Allingham's books were *better* than Christie's or Sayers's, but having done my semi-regular reread of Traitor's Purse, I am reminded why I always feel that my heart belongs more to the Campion-verse than to the other two authors

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