The Case of the Late Pig is a crime novel by English writer Margery Allingham, first published 1937, by Hodder & Stoughton.

Surprisingly, an anonymous letter inviting Campion to the funeral has also arrived in the morning post.

Campion drives down to the friend's home where her father reveals the most assuredly dead body of R.I. “Pig” Peters, his head caved in no more than 12 hours earlier.

Now begins Campion's search, which leads to a missing body, a grisly scarecrow and one too many beers for Lugg before he discovers the madman that planned more than a few murders.

Campion adapted a total of eight novels, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes.