Murder's a Swine

A Second World War Mystery

Nap Lombard, Martin Edwards

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British Library
10 February 2021

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime; Second World War fiction

Series: British Library Crime Classics

'""I should imagine this was murder, too, because it would be very difficult to build yourself into a heap of sandbags and then die...""'

In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls of their street's bomb shelter. As the police begin their investigation, the night is interrupted once again when Agnes's upstairs neighbour Mrs Sibley is terrorised by the sight of a grisly pig's head at her fourth-floor window.

With the discovery of more sinister threats mysteriously signed 'Pig-sticker', Agnes and her husband Andrew

unable to resist a good mystery

begin their investigation to deduce the identity of a villain living amongst the tenants of their block of flats.

A witty and light-hearted mystery full of intriguing period detail, this rare gem of Golden Age crime returns to print for the first time since its publication in 1943.

By: Nap Lombard
Introduction by: Martin Edwards
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 88
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712353786
ISBN 10: 071235378X
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 10 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nap Lombard was the penname of Pamela Hansford Johnson and Neil Stewart. Johnson was a playwright and author, whose debut, This Bed Thy Centre (1935), was a controversial success about a young couple's sexual frustration as the result of a long engagement. Stewart was an Australian journalist and author who served in the British Army during the Second World War. Together they co-wrote two light-hearted classic mysteries - Tidy Death (1940) and Murder's a Swine (1943).