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.
SURFEIT 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...
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007328727Number of pages: 864Weight: 580 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 54 mm
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