The Case of the Late Pig - Softcover

Allingham, Margery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099477742 ISBN 13: 9780099477747

Verlag: Vintage, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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's body goes missing. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime. (2004-10-21)

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Críticas:

"Don't start reading these books unless you are confident that you can handle addiction" (Independent)

"Allingham captures her quintessential quiet detective Albert Campion to perfection... For those who relish classic crime fiction" (Daily Express)

"Margery Allingham has worked her way up to a worthy place among the tiny hierarchy of front-rankers in the detective world" (Tatler)

"Allingham was a rare and precious talent" (Washington Post)

Reseña del editor:

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?

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

As urbane as Lord Wimsey...as ingenious as Poirot... Meet one of crime fiction’s Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0099477742
• ISBN 13: 9780099477747
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128