"THE GRINNING PIG" by Nap Lombard with its original dust jacket. 1943 1st American edition, 1st printing (with no subsequent printing designation stated on the copyright page); Simon and Schuster; New York. "An Inner Sanctum Mystery." Originally published in the U.K. as "Murder's a Swine," the book is a lighthearted, screwball-style murder mystery novel set in London during the early stages of World War II. It uses sharp humor and witty banter as an antidote to the bleak reality of the wartime Blitz. The story kicks off on a bitterly cold winter night during the "Phoney War". Agnes Kinghof and a young Air Raid Precaution (ARP) warden seek shelter from the miserable weather inside an ad-hoc sandbagged bunker near the Stewarts Court flats. There, they stumble upon an over-ripe, decomposing corpse hidden behind the sandbags.