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INSPECTOR ALLEYN 3-BOOK COLLECTION 4
A SURFEIT OF LAMPREYS, DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN, COLOUR SCHEME |
| By: |
Ngaio Marsh |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£12.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0007531389 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007531387 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
12 September, 2013 |
| Pages: |
976 |
| Description: |
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the fourth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries |
| Synopsis: |
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the fourth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteriesSURFEIT OF LAMPREYSThe Lampreys were a peculiar family. They entertained their guests with charades - like rich Uncle Gabriel, who was always such a bore. The Lampreys thought if they jollied him up he would bail them out of poverty again. But Uncle Gabriel meets a violent end, and Chief Inspector Alleyn had to work out which of them killed him...DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMANIt begins as an entertainment: eight people, many of them adversaries, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre. It ends in snowbound disaster. Everyone has an alibi - and a motive as well. But Roderick Alleyn soon realizes that it all hangs on Thomas, the dancing footman...COLOUR SCHEMEIt was a horrible death -lured into a pool of boiling mud and left to die. Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for enemy agents, knows that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised, or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted... |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |