The Case of the Late Pig
$16.99
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with one of the ‘Queens of Crime’, Margery Allingham, and her fiendishly brilliant, brutal, but deeply entertaining novella of Middle England, in the midst of a murder spree.
A fiendishly brutal but brilliant, charming English murder mystery, from Agatha Christie’s favourite writer - the criminally underrated, Margery Allingham.
Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529982701 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529982707 |
| Author: | Margery Allingham |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Brief Encounters |
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Critics Review
Don’t start reading these books unless you are confident that you can handle addiction—IndependentAllingham captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection… For those who relish classic crime fiction—Daily ExpressMargery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world—TatlerAllingham was a rare and precious talent—Washington Post
About The Author
Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham was born in London in 1904. She sold her first story at age 8 and published her first novel before turning 20. She married the artist, journalist and editor Philip Youngman Carter in 1927.
In 1928, Allingham published her first detective story, The White Cottage Mystery. The following year, in The Crime at Black Dudley, she introduced the detective who was to become the hallmark of her sophisticated crime novels and murder mysteries – Albert Campion.
Famous for her London thrillers, such as Hide My Eyes and The Tiger in the Smoke, Margery Allingham has been compared to Dickens in her evocation of the city’s shady underworld. Acclaimed by crime novelists such as P.D. James, Allingham is counted alongside Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Gladys Mitchell as a pre-eminent Golden Age crime writer.
Margery Allingham died in 1966.
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