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The Case of the Late Pig
Margery Allingham
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Description for The Case of the Late Pig
Paperback. Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peters's body goes missing. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY
Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?
Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peters's body goes missing. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.
As urbane as Lord Wimsey…as ingenious as Poirot… Meet one of crime ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099477747
SKU
V9780099477747
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About Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. She sold her first story at age 8 and published her first novel before turning 20. She married the artist, journalist and editor Philip Youngman Carter in 1927. In 1928 Allingham published her first detective story, The White Cottage Mystery, and the following year, in The Crime at Black Dudley, she introduced ... Read more
Reviews for The Case of the Late Pig
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Independent
Allingham captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection... For those who relish classic crime fiction
Daily Express
Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world
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Independent
Allingham captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection... For those who relish classic crime fiction
Daily Express
Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world
... Read more