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. (20041021)
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"Miss Allingham is one of the few writers who can deal with art. Both her passions and her patterns are beautiful, accurate and serene" (Daily Telegraph )
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'Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever' Sara Paretsky (20041021)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Early Albert Campion adventures are a lot of fun. _Look to the Lady_, _Mystery Mile_ and _Sweet Danger_ are all great reads. They are not mysteries in the sense of Christie or Carr, and combine all sorts of elements, including touches of Wodehouse and Buchan.
Most of them are told from someone else's viewpoint, but _Pig_, while a great mystery story, is told first-person by Campion himself.
There is a reason Dr. Watson characters tell stories about great detectives. The detective is half-prestidigiator (cf. the great detectives of John Dickson Carr). When clues come the detective's way they make the case clearer to him, but when they are presented to the reader through Dr. Watson characters, they tend to mystify the reader further. It is considered "fair play" to present the reader with all the clues as they become available, although it's fair for the author to misconstrue what they may mean via the interpretation of the detective's less astute assistants.
Since Campion is telling the story himself, he has to mystify the reader by not fully describing clues or neglecting to explain to the reader how these clues fit into his overall reasoning. This sometimes makes it seem like Campion is playing a trick on the reader. The story would have been done much better through the eyes of another character.
Nevertheless, the (very short, perhaps too short) novella is solid and a lot of fun, with intriguing characters like Hayhoe, Gilbert Whippet, the officious Reverend Bathwick, and R. I. ("Pig") Peters, who simply refuses to remain dead.
Most of them are told from someone else's viewpoint, but _Pig_, while a great mystery story, is told first-person by Campion himself.
There is a reason Dr. Watson characters tell stories about great detectives. The detective is half-prestidigiator (cf. the great detectives of John Dickson Carr). When clues come the detective's way they make the case clearer to him, but when they are presented to the reader through Dr. Watson characters, they tend to mystify the reader further. It is considered "fair play" to present the reader with all the clues as they become available, although it's fair for the author to misconstrue what they may mean via the interpretation of the detective's less astute assistants.
Since Campion is telling the story himself, he has to mystify the reader by not fully describing clues or neglecting to explain to the reader how these clues fit into his overall reasoning. This sometimes makes it seem like Campion is playing a trick on the reader. The story would have been done much better through the eyes of another character.
Nevertheless, the (very short, perhaps too short) novella is solid and a lot of fun, with intriguing characters like Hayhoe, Gilbert Whippet, the officious Reverend Bathwick, and R. I. ("Pig") Peters, who simply refuses to remain dead.
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By mtkent
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Thank you Vintage (Random House) for bringing Margery back to the masses. This I believe her shortest Campion novel may not be the best of the series but it is indubitably of its time and as ever thoroughly enjoyable. If you want the best then Police At The Funeral (not yet republished) is the best as this introduces the ubiquitous but comical Uncle William. Margery The Magnificent I say.
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I love the Campion novels. I have been longing for them to come on Kindle. Who IS Albert? We are never told, there is only a hint that his blood is blue. This tale takes Albert back to his public school days, and his fellow pupils don't seem to have changed much. The characters are well described and each is pictured easily. Read this, and you'll want the others.
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Mixed bag
This is first and foremost a murder mystery and works well enough in that genre. The identities of both victim (or is it victims? Read more
Published on 8 Sep 2010 by Graham R. Hill
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May be the best Allingham
For me this one and "Police at the Funeral" are the best Allinghams.
Which one is best is a moot point. Read more
Which one is best is a moot point. Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2008 by A. Candid
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Not for Newcomers to the Campion Series
First published over 65 years ago, this entry in Allingham's long-running Campion series didn't do much to enthuse me to investigate other of Campion's adventures. Read more
Published on 29 May 2003 by A. Ross
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