Police at the Funeral
Police at the Funeral is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1931, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in 1932 in the United States by Doubleday, New York. It is the fourth novel starring the mysterious Albert Campion, and his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg.
Plot summary
Albert Campion is requested by his college chum's fiancee to look for her missing Uncle Andrew who disappeared whilst walking home from church. In the charming Cambridge countryside, murder is all in the Faraday family.
Television
In two series of BBC adaptations of Allingham's stories, shown in the United States by PBS, Campion was played by Peter Davison, Lugg by Brian Glover, and Oates by Andrew Burt. In the first series, Peter Davison sang the title music himself.
Campion adapted a total of eight novels, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes.
Series 1 (1989)
Police at the Funeral Season 1, Episode 2
References
- Margery Allingham, Police at the Funeral, (London: Heinemann , 1931)
External links
- An Allingham bibliography, with dates and publishers, from the U.K. Margery Allingham Society.uk/bibliography
- A series of Allingham plot summaries, including many Campion books, from the U.K. Margery Allingham Society
- Police at the Funeral at IMDb