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Livre 8 sur 21: The Albert Campion Mysteries

Allingham, Margery

 
9781504091817: The Case of the Late Pig
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ISBN 10 : 1504091817 ISBN 13 : 9781504091817
Editeur : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2024

Synopsis

A man is killed five months after his funeral, in a tale by "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).

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.

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 Allingham mystery not to be missed.

"My very favourite of the four Queens of Crime is Allingham."--J. K. Rowling

"Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered."--P.D. James

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À propos de l'auteur

Margery Allingham, born in 1904 to Emily and Herbert Allingham, was an esteemed English novelist, author, and editor of Christian Globe and the New London Journal. Considered one of the four "Queens of Crime" from the golden age of detective fiction, Allingham began writing stories and plays at a young age and published her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, at 19. She later studied drama and speech training at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Allingham is best known for her character Albert Campion, a sleuth first introduced in The Crime of Black Dudley. Campion was featured in seventeen subsequent novels, and even more short stories. Allingham continued to write until her death on June 30, 1966.

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Éditeur
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1504091817
ISBN 13 
9781504091817
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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