SUMMARY: Forged paintings, theft, and murder disrupt the voyage of the Zodiac SUMMARY: Forged paintings, theft, and murder disrupt the voyage of the Zodiac
Clutch of Constables
โ Scribed by Marsh, Ngaio
- Book ID
- 108129995
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Series
- Roderick Alleyn 25
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007344819
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โฆ Synopsis
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel which features blood-curdling murders in the confines of a riverboat, the Zodiac, cruising through Constable country.
'He looks upon the murders that he did in fact perform as tiresome and regrettable necessities,' reflected Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn on the international crook known as 'the Jampot'.
But it was Alleyn's wife Troy who knew 'the Jampot' best: she had shared close quarters with him on the tiny pleasure steamer Zodiac on a cruise along the peaceful rivers of 'Constable country'. And it was she who knew something was badly wrong even before Alleyn was called in to solve the two murders on board...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
We do love a man in a uniform, but the "Constables" in question are not policemen but paintings – the landscapes, specifically, of the 19th-century painter John Constable. Agatha Troy (the artist wife, you'll remember, of Inspector Alleyn) has a special fondness for Constable's work, so she ju
### Review "It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." --\_New York \_magazine ### Product Description Troubled waters... Celebrated painter Troy Alleyn, aboard the *Zodiac* on a cruise of the English waterways, finds a colorful constellation of personalitie