skygiants

That does sound compelling -- I was determined to do Campion in order a while back, but stopped dead at Police at the Funeral, so maybe out-of-order would give me a better shot!

Police at the Funeral has such a generic title, especially for a Campion novel, that it took me at least a decade and a full re-read to fix it as the one with the book-destroying racism. Skipping ahead from The Crime at Black Dudley (1927) to Sweet Danger (1933) has worked for people of my acquaintance. Traitor's Purse is one of my favorites, though.

(Random was definitely the most interesting character in the first book to me, and also even from his relatively brief appearance has your flags all over him.)

(Hooray.)