“Wonderfully genteel, appealingly old-fashioned, gently humorous, always entertaining, and eminently readable”

“Ripley has never been better at demonstrating his ability to plausibly extrapolate from Margery Allingham’s Campion novels than in his fourth outing for her gentleman sleuth”

“It has that perfect cocktail hour mix of mystery, derring-do, cutting wit and stiff-upper lip English reserve that honours Allingham’s creation while leaving Ripley’s own indelible imprint on the series”

“Mike Ripley has made an excellent job in writing so-called continuity novels in the style of Margery Allingham, a queen of the golden age of crime fiction and the creator of Albert Campion, toff gentleman-detective. In Mr Campion's War, the hero is celebrating his 70th birthday in a posh London hotel. A few foreigners not known to the other guests are among those invited. Campion marks the occasion by revealing something he had hitherto kept secret - his role in the French resistance to the Nazi occupation during the war. The novel alternates between unexpected developments at the dinner and flashbacks to events in 1942, mainly in Marseilles. Good Allingham, good war-spy thriller.”