folklore Beth Cairey, the professor's charming daughter Mrs Dick Shannon, a loud-voiced, tactless local stable-owner Percy Peck, a knowledgeable local woodsman Mrs Munsey, hairless old crone of the village Sammy Munsey, her son, the village idiot Israel Melchizadek, a jeweller Stanislaus Oates, Scotland Yard Inspector, a friend of Campion Adaptations The story was adapted, following the original closely, for television by the BBC, the first of eight Campion stories starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as Lugg and Gordon Jackson as Professor Cairey. Originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes, the original UK air date was 22 January 1989. The series was shown in the United States by PBS. It was filmed partly on location in the village of Kersey, Suffolk. The novel had been adapted by the BBC once before. As a radio play for the Home Service in 1957. There Campion had been played by Richard Hurndall, who like Peter Davison also appeared as an incarnation of the Doctor in The Five Doctors. References Margery Allingham, Look to the Lady (London: Jarrolds, 1931) 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 1930 British novels Novels by Margery Allingham Novels set in Suffolk Jarrold Publishing books Doubleday, Doran books fr:Jusqu'à la lie