Coroner's Pidgin

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Coroner's Pidgin

First edition
Author	Margery Allingham
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Albert Campion
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	William Heinemann
Publication date	1945
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	236
ISBN	978-0-09-949278-8 (2006 Vintage)
OCLC	70059533
Preceded by	Traitor's Purse
Followed by	More Work for the Undertaker

Coroner's Pidgin is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1945, in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York as Pearls Before Swine. It is the twelfth novel in the Albert Campion series.

Plot introduction[]

Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, Albert Campion is relaxing in his bath when his servant Magersfontein Lugg and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman. At first Campion is unwilling to get involved, but he is forced to bring his powers of detection to bear on the case, and to solve not only the mystery of the murdered woman but also the alarming disappearance of some well-known art treasures. Campion discovers the clue to the mystery by tracing two bottles of a very rare wine.

References[]

• Margery Allingham, Coroner's Pidgin, (London: William Heinemann, 1945)
• Margery Allingham, Coroner's Pidgin, (Vintage, Random House, 2006)

External links[]

• An Allingham bibliography, with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society
• A page about the book from the Margery Allingham Archive

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