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Coroner's Pidgin
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
"A Word in Season" and a preface by the author.
- "Mr Campion's Clowns" (1967) – "Mystery Mile", "Coroner's Pidgin" and "More Work for the Undertaker";br with a preface by Philip Youngman Carter.
Adaptations.
Adaptations Campion (1959–1960).
Two stories were adapted by the BBC in 1959 and 1960, with Bernard Horsfall as Campion and Wally Patch as Lugg. Each story was shown in six 30-minute episodes. The 1959 adaptation of "Dancers in Mourning