Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 4: A Surfeit of Lampreys, Death and the Dancing Footman, Colour Scheme
✍ Scribed by Marsh, Ngaio
- Book ID
- 109159171
- Publisher
- Harper
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 685 KB
- Series
- Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 4
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007328727
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✦ 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 mysteries
SURFEIT OF LAMPREYS
The 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 FOOTMAN
It 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 SCHEME
It 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�
Bonus: A Fool About Money