Magersfontein Lugg is a fictional character

Fictional character

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 in the Albert Campion

Albert Campion

Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in The Crime at Black Dudley , an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, and would go on to feature in another 17 novels and over 20...

 novel

Novel

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s, written by Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

Margery Louise Allingham was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.- Childhood and schooling :...

. Servant and factotum

Factotum

Factotum is the second novel by American author Charles Bukowski. The plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and makes his way from one menial job to the next...

 to Mr Campion, Lugg is a former burglar, with a gruff manner, who hinders Campion socially as much as he helps.

Appearances

Lugg first appears in Mystery Mile

Mystery Mile

Mystery Mile is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1930, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds Publishing, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York...

, where his contacts in the underworld prove useful; he goes on to be featured in most of the Campion books. He is played by Brian Glover

Brian Glover

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 in the 1989/90 BBC

BBC

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 TV series.

Character

Lugg is a large, bald man, a former criminal who reformed after he "lost his figure". In Police at the Funeral

Police at the Funeral

Police at the Funeral is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in October 1931, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in 1932 in the United States by Doubleday, New York...

, he has recently grown a very large white moustache

Moustache

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, which he also sports in Sweet Danger

Sweet Danger

Sweet Danger is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in October 1933, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday, New York as Kingdom of Death; later U.S. versions used the title The Fear Sign...

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Lugg, in The Fashion in Shrouds

The Fashion in Shrouds

The Fashion in Shrouds is a crime novel by Margery Allingham. It was originally published in 1938 in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday, New York. It is the tenth novel in the Albert Campion series....

, is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide". This sentence frequently appeared in Mad magazine and has achieved some notoriety as an Internet meme. Unfortunately, it is seldom attributed to either Lugg or Allingham. The sentence means, "It's insane to try and bribe a policeman with fake money."