The Case of the Late Pig
IPSO Books (Verlag)
978-1-911295-14-3 (ISBN)
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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.
'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.’ - P.D. James
Margery Allingham was born in Ealing, London in 1904 to a family immersed in literature. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923 when she was 19. Her first work of detective fiction was a serialized story published by the Daily Express in 1927. Entitled The White Cottage Mystery, it contained atypical themes for a woman writer of the era. Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley. This introduced Albert Campion, albeit originally as a minor character. He returned in Mystery Mile, thanks in part to pressure from her American publishers, much taken with the character. Campion proved so successful that Allingham made him the centrepiece of another 17 novels and over 20 short stories, continuing into the 1960s.
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Albert Campion Mysteries |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane |
ISBN-10 | 1-911295-14-4 / 1911295144 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-911295-14-3 / 9781911295143 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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