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The Case of the Late Pig
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Mrs. C. Hunt
- 03-12-21
The Case of the Late Pig
This is another dark mystery where people are Dieing all over the place. Read brilliantly again by David Thorpe.
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- I. Whitworth
- 28-07-23
Great little story
Great story, lots of twists and turns and a dramatic showdown - classic Campion and Lugg.
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- Ninaminacat
- 18-08-21
Humour that actually works in a crime novel
This was my first experience of Margery Allingham and what a delightful period-piece romp it was! I hadn't expected it to be so funny, with deliberately larger than life characters and some rather ridiculous goings-on, as well as an intriguing and imaginative case. (I tend to find humour and murder mysteries an uncomfortable mix, so it's lucky I came to the book blind, or I may get have denied myself a lot of fun!)
The tale is performed brilliantly by David Thorpe, who has a whole array of suitable voices at his command. I look forward to joining Campion on further adventures with him as my guide.
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- Nicola
- 23-06-21
A bit short
Not long enough for the usual complex plot but still complicated enough to keep listening. Perfectly read.
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- JB
- 22-05-20
BETTER. THAN EVER!
Campion, the wonderful Lugg and all the wonderful, impossibly plausible characters in his ever-so-slightly rose-tinted world between and during one of the Wars, improve like old wine after being 'rested' for a time.
Even Allingham incisive revelations of now outdated ideas and attidudes in the earlier works does not detract from the freshness, wry wisdom and understanding of the social mores and human nature to be found on every return to the fascinating lives and times of Albert, Amanda, Lugg and all their wierd and wonderful contempories! Just to think that the affable, attractive and quietly brilliant, ageless Albert should now be 120!!!
And as for the indomitable Lugg..........
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- Anonymous User
- 31-05-18
Great story badly read.
Margery Allingham must be turning in her grave. Very sadly, the narrator has confused the highly intelligent and infinitely subtle Albert Campion with Bertie Wooster. I see that one reviewer was misled by this interpretation into taking Campion for an arrogant twerp - a great pity as that person will presumably not bother with all the rest of the marvellous Campion stories. Francis Matthews, who did other Campion audiobooks, was spot on, setting just the right tone. Surely someone could be found to carry on in a similar style (one doesn't expect a pastiche), instead of producing this complete misinterpretation of the central character.
I am only persevering with this narrator because (a) I already know how good the actual stories are; (b) I have set out to listen to the entire Campion series; and (c) I cannot find any other unabridged recording. Nevertheless, it is very hard work ignoring the narrator's style in order to focus on the quality of the actual narrative.
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- Hepwood Flutey
- 20-04-22
Another classic Campion novel
Lots of fun and jolly japes for Campion and Lugg, interesting characters introduced and a fun story (if murder can be thus described). It is written in the first person and David Thorpe does a great job of narrating. I prefer Francis Matthew’s Campion voice but t
narration from David Thorpe is always brilliant and enjoyable.
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- Aroha
- 18-12-21
Excellent Allingham story for audio reading
The reader spoilt this for me as this was not the Albert Campion of my reading. "Played all the tight notes but not necessarily in the right order" seemed to sum it up. This reader by the use of tone or inflection made Campion into an egotistical effete idiot. I couldnt like him.
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- Fiona
- 12-04-13
Pig, disapointing
Main character quite annoying, arrogant, and the pig of it all, rarely do I ever get so irritated by a book. disappointed as margery allingham's hide my eyes was excellent. Just couldn't stand the main detective, didn't finish it. Other people liked it so maybe stuck up English toffs grate with me more than the average.
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- elly gausden
- 04-10-15
The most awful narrator
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The book itself is great, I have read it in paperback, but the narrator reads it in the style of a third rate actor playing Lady Bracknell. His accent is all wrong and I kept expecting him to say 'a haaaaand baaag' at any moment. Dreadful, especially as the books in this series read by Francis Matthews are brilliantly done. What a shame the rest are ruined by this narrator.
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The story itself is great, go read the printed version
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