Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
"Pig" Peters made Albert Campion's life a misery at prep school, and now that he's dead, Campion is hard-pressed to squeeze out a tear. Still, he does attend the funeral. Not because he much regrets the passing of the Pig, but because he got an intriguingly anonymous invitation and Campion never can resist a mystery.

The mystery deepens significantly six months later, when a friend in the countryside urgently requests Campion's help. On arrival in Sussex, Campion is presented with a dead body that, in life, most definitely belonged to the late-and-not-much-lamented Pig. So who, exactly, was buried six months earlier?

As mourners from the previous funeral turn up -- as well as some of Pig's newer though not-particularly-grieving acquaintances -- Campion is even more confused, but he eventually gropes his way to a solution.

Narrated, for the first and only time, in Campion's own voice.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig. The 9th Albert Campion Mystery. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 1934609145 (September, 2008), 224 p., $14.95.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig (UK 2005)

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'Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered' -- P.D. James
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.

'To Albert Campion has fallen the honour of being the first detective to feature in a story which is also by any standard a distinguished novel' -- Observer

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig. Vintage, ISBN: 0099477742 (December, 2005), 137 p., £6.99.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig (UK 1994)

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Kepesake was the perfect village. Perfect for murder...
Albert Campion was summoned there, by an anonymous message, to the funeral of Pig Peters, whom he remembered only as the sadistic school bully of his childhood. It was an unpleasant affair, with one or two decidedly dubious mourners.

Campion has already forgotten it when he is called back down to Kepesake to investigate a peculiarly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. No sooner has Campion established the fact than the body disappears again. And suddenly corpses start turning up all over the place. It takes the combined talents of the coolly incisive Campion and his furiously protective manservant Lugg to solve the crime - trying not to get stuck like pigs in the process.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig. Penguin Classic Crime, ISBN: 0140087842 (May, 1994), 137 p., £3.99.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig (USA 1989)

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THE CORPSE WHO WOULDN'T STAY DEAD
When Albert Campion is called upon to investigate a murder in a small town, he discovers that the victim is none other than an old schoolmate, R. I. Peters, a.k.a. Pig, whose funeral he'd attended not six months earlier. Then Pig's fiancée shows up, demanding to see the body of her late beloved... but the corpse has disappeared.

MYSTERY AT ITS BRITISH BEST
Equally at home in the underworld and among the upper crust, super-sleuth Albert Campion rarely misses a clue or fails to find a motive. Behind his horn-rimmed glasses and mild-mannered facade is a brilliant mind that can penetrate to the villainous heart of the most heinous crime.

"Miss Allingham is very, very good and those who are not familiar with her have a discovery awaiting them." -- Los Angeles Times

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig. The funeral is premature... When the departed joins the mourners. An Albert Campion Mystery. Avon Books, ISBN: 038070577X (July, 1989), 148 p., $3.50.

Margery Allingham: CAMPION in The Case of the Late Pig (UK 1989)

From the Publisher:
Kepesake was the perfect village. Perfect for murder...
Albert Campion was summoned there, by an anonymous message, to the funeral of Pig Peters, whom he remembered only as the sadistic school bully of his childhood. It was an unpleasant affair, with one or two decidedly dubious mourners.

Campion has already forgotten it when he is called back down to Kepesake to investigate a peculiarly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. No sooner has Campion established the fact than the body disappears again. And suddenly corpses start turning up all over the place. It takes the combined talents of the coolly incisive Campion and his furiously protective manservant Lugg to solve the crime - trying not to get stuck like pigs in the process.

Margery Allingham: CAMPION in The Case of the Late Pig. Now a major television series starring Peter Davison. Penguin, ISBN: 0140115536 (January, 1989), 144 p., £2.99.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig (UK 1983)

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'Margery Allingham has a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world' - Tatler

Kepesake was the perfect village. Perfect for murder...
Albert Campion was summoned there, by an anonymous message, to the funeral of Pig Peters, whom he remembered only as the sadistic school bully of his childhood. It was an unpleasant affair, with one or two decidedly dubious mourners.

Campion has already forgotten it when he is called back down to Kepesake to investigate a peculiarly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. No sooner has Campion established the fact than the body disappears again. And suddenly corpses start turning up all over the place. It takes the combined talents of the coolly incisive Campion and his furiously protective manservant Lugg to solve the crime.

Trying not to get stuck like pigs in the process.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig. An Albert Campion Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 0140002766 (October, 1983), 137 p., £1.75.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig (UK 1961)

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In this book Albert Campion, the unassuming bespectacled Mr Campion of penetrating intelligence and deceptive mildness, tells the story of one of his earlier adventures. It started with the funeral notice of a man whom Campion remembered all too vividly as the school bully of his childhood, Pig Peters. There was something distinctly shady about this funeral, and a few months later when Campion was called in to investigate a murder at a highly respectable country club it appeared that Pig's funeral had been the prologue to a series of particularly unpleasant crimes which very nearly ended in violent death for both Campion and his invaluable mountain of a servant, Lugg.

Margery Allingham: The Case of the Late Pig. Murder follows the funeral. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1961, Penguin Books No. 276, 137 p., 2/6.