num_pages: 144
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Case of the Late Pig
titlecomplete: The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion Mystery, #8)
characters: Albert Campion
genres: Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Golden Age Mystery, Detective, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Murder Mystery, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 2185
series: Albert Campion
publisher: Vintage Books