The Case Of The Late Pig: Margery Allingham

Campion has been summoned, by an anonymous message, to the picture-perfect village of Kepesake for the funeral of Pig Peters, who he remembers only as the sadistic school bully of his childhood. It is a decidedly unpleasant affair with one or two dubious mourners. Campion has practically forgotten the affair when he is called back to Kepesake to investigate a peculiarly distasteful death. The body is that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his funeral... This book was first published in 1937 and sounds worthy of being made into an episode of Midsomer Murders.