family's lawyer Alexander Barnabas, a famously dramatic barrister, son of the founder of the company Film, TV or theatrical adaptations The story was adapted for television by the BBC, the seventh of eight Campion stories starring Peter Davison as Campion and Brian Glover as Lugg. Originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes, the original UK air date was 23 February 1990. The series was shown in the United States by PBS. References First published as a Penguin Book in 1944 External links An Allingham bibliography, with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society A series of Allingham plot summaries, including many Campion books, from the UK Margery Allingham Society A page about the book from the Margery Allingham Archive Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions 1936 British novels Novels set in London Novels set in France British detective novels British mystery novels Heinemann (publisher) books Novels by Margery Allingham British novels adapted into television shows Doubleday, Doran books