The Case of the Late PigFirst published by Hodder & Stoughton 1937 |
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 forgotton it when he is called back down to Kepesake to investigate a peculiarly distatseful 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 cooly incisive Campion and his furiously protective manservant Lugg to solve the crime - trying not to get stuck like pigs in the process.