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Lädt ... Der Fall Pig. Roman (1937)von Margery Allingham
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Albert Campion should know that more is going on than the apparent but this is a tale of bungling as much as anything as he sees the body of a man whose funeral he attended months before. ( ) This is unusual. It's narrated in the first person by Albert Campion himself, which is not how the remainder of the series have been written so far. It starts with a funeral in January of Pig Peters, someone who Campion went to school with and at whose hands he suffered being bullied. Come June and there's a body turned up in a country village of some friends of his, and so Campion goes to try and sort it out - only to find that the body appears to be that of Pig himself. This time he has had is head bashed in by a giant flower urn from a parapet - no chance of rising from the dead this time, although the body does go walkabouts at one point - Pig appears to be a particularly active corpse. From the varied range of people present in the environs, Campion has to work out who is what they say they are and who is dissembling. There's a lot of misdirection, and a close call at the end before the villain is exposed. It's entertaining and engaging. I liked the plot & story, I didn't like how it was written... The writing and going around & around was confusing... Albert Campion's valet, Lugg, reads the Death notices to Campion every morning while Campion has his breakfast. The current notices include a funeral for Pig Perry, a childhood tormentor of Albert and so he attends. Oddly there are few others in attendance, the Vicar, an odd young woman, an older man, and another man whom Albert & Pig also knew as a child. Months go by and Albert is called upon by a friend to investigate the death of a man who was plotting the hostile take-over of a quiet country hotel, a sort of club for the older gentlemen of the town. A drunken man seemingly goes to sleep in a lawn chair and killed when he's hit on the head by a falling cement flower urn which has been in place for hundreds of years! The problem is the man bears an exact resemblance to the late Pig Perry... Could it be that Pig had a brother? During the investigation of the death of Pig's "brother", they odd woman from the funeral turns up as do the others from the funeral. No one it seems is who they purport to be. The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham is the 8th book in her crime series that features the dapper Albert Campion and his personal thug of a valet, Lugg. I was very happy that this outing featured Lugg in a fairly major way, as he always livens up the story. The Pig that is mentioned in the title is an old school rival of Campion’s and the book opens with Lugg reading the obituaries to Campion of which one is for the late R. I. “Pig” Peters. Campion attends his funeral but five months later he receives a call from an old friend and mentor to help solve a murder. When he arrives and examines the body, he finds it is none other than Pig. To complicate matters others who also attended the first Pig funeral arrive in the village and all too soon, Campion finds himself matching wits with a madman that has planned more than a few murders. To make matters even more confusing, Campion is dealing with a number of romantic high-jinks as well. Apparently this is the only book in the series that is actually narrated by Campion himself. It is quite short but there is plenty of action and Allingham delivers this mystery with a light hand and quite a bit of subtle humor. The Case of the Late Pig is a fun addition to the series. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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 Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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