Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book,the ninth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.
CLUTCH OF CONSTABLESAccording to Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn,'the Jampot'is an international crook who regards murder as'tiresome and regrettable necessities'. But Alleyn's wife Troy has shared close quarters with the Jampot on a pleasure cruise along the peaceful rivers of'Constable country'and knows something is badly wrong even before the two murders on board...
WHEN IN ROMEWhen their guide disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica,the members of Sebastian Mailer's tour group seem strangely unperturbed. But when a body is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus,Superintendent Alleyn,in Rome on the trail of an international drug racket,is very much concerned...
TIED UP IN TINSELWhen a much disliked visiting servant disappears without trace after playing Santa Claus,foul play is at once suspected - only suspicion falls not on the staff but on the unimpeachably respectable guests. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn returns unexpectedly from a trip overseas,it is to find his beloved wife in the thick of an intriguing mystery...
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007328772Number of pages: 672Weight: 470 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 43 mm
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