More Work for the Undertaker

More Work for the Undertaker is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1948, in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday, New York. It is the thirteenth novel in the Albert Campion series.

More Work for the Undertaker

First edition
Author	Margery Allingham
Language	English
Series	Albert Campion
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	William Heinemann
Publication date	1948
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Preceded by	Coroner's Pidgin
Followed by	The Tiger in the Smoke

The book focuses on Apron Street, an isolated neighbourhood in London. Going "up Apron street" has become a byword for a criminal vanishing. This proves to be done by the Bowels family, the undertakers of the title. More sinister proves to be the effort of the local banker to eliminate the eccentric Palinode family, which has inherited shares of stock once thought worthless. The banker proves also to be the moving force behind the service the Bowels family runs for criminals.

Note on the Title

Allingham may have taken the title from a comical music-hall song More Work for the Undertaker written in 1895 by Fred W. Leigh (1871 - 1924)^[1][2]

The chorus of this song is traditionally sung by Yale when they are winning against Harvard.^[3]