title: Police At the Funeral: A Campion Mystery
author:  Margery Allingham 
description: &#8220;Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered.&#8221;<br>&#8211;P.D. James
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  # AGAINST HIS JUDGMENT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Robert Grant
  
  
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  THREE days had passed, and the excitement in the neighbourhood was nearly at
  an end. The apothecary's shop at the corner into which John Baker's body and
  the living four-year-old child had been carried together immediately after the
  catastrophe had lost most of its interest for the curious, although the noses
  of a few idlers were still pressed against the large pane in apparent search
  of something beyond the brilliant coloured bottles or the soda-water
  fountains. Now that the funeral was over, the womenkind whose windows
  commanded a view of the house where the dead man had been lying had taken
  their heads in and resumed their sweeping and washing, and knots of their
  husbands and fathers no longer stood in gaping conclave close to the very
  door-sill, rehearsing again and again the details of the distressing incident.