Murder's a Swine

London: British Library Crime Classics, 2021. First thus. Fine. A pristine copy of this scarce WWII mystery, only recently published in paperback
The author Nap Lombard is the pseudonym for the then married couple English author and playwright Pamela Hansford Johnson and journalist Gordon Neil Stewart Johnson's second husband was the noted author CP Snow
The original book, published in the midst of WWII, is virtually unobtainable these days
From the publisher:
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 lighthearted 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 287 pp.