The Case of the Late Pig

Book Details

Library

Author

Margery Allingham

Category

Mystery

Publisher

Vintage

Printed By

Norhaven Paperbacks

Country

Norway

Personal

Year Published

1937 / 2005

Date Read

01/09/2006

ISBN

0099477742

Personal Rating

8 / 10

Binding

Paperback

Pages

137

Overview

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

Comment

This was a very small book, but contained a full tale of lies, coverups and murder. Written in 1937, the style is wonderfully refreshing, with impeccable manners and none of the shock value and sex in more modern mysteries. I love the expressive language, and it wasn't hard to imagine this as an early Midsomer Murders tale.

I'm glad I stumbled into this book, and I'll have to keep the author in mind for some more light weekend reading.