Description

A fiendishly brutal but brilliant, charming English murder mystery, from Agatha Christie’s favourite writer – the criminally underrated, Margery Allingham.

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.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

Publisher Review

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