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 Peter's body goes missing.
It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel
the crime.
Margery Allingham was a prolific writer who sold her first story at age
eight and published her first novel before turning 20. Allingham went on
to become one of the preeminent writers who helped bring the detective
story to maturity in the 1920s and 1930s.