The Case of the Late Pig is part of Margery Allingham’s Albert Campion mystery series.

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 Peter’s body goes missing. It takes all Campion’s coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.

The Case of the Late Pig is, uniquely, narrated by Campion himself. In Allingham’s inimitable style, high drama sits neatly beside pitch perfect black comedy. A heady mix of murder, romance, and the urbane detective’s own unglamorous past make this an unmissable Allingham mystery.

The Case of the Late Pig was first published in 1937 within the collection Mr Campion: Criminologist.

PRAISE FOR MARGERY ALLINGHAM

‘Miss Allingham is one of the few writers who can deal with art. Both her passions and her patterns are beautiful, accurate and serene’ — Daily Telegraph

‘Margery Allingham was one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel.’ — Alexander McCall Smith

‘Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered’ — PD James

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