The English writer Marjorie Ellingham and her hero, private detective Albert Campion, were hitherto not widely known to the Russian reader. Mr. Campion is very different from his American colleagues, such as Michael Shane from the novels of B. Halliday. The young detective is smart and noble, like a true English gentleman, at the same time he is characterized by cunning and the ability to feel confident and free in any environment - be it an aristocratic living room or a gangster den. Marjorie Ellingham's books do not belong to detectives called “cool” . Investigations and crimes are described in the style of novels about good old England, which is their undoubted advantage.