Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 7: Off with this Head, Singing in the Shrouds, False Scent
✍ Scribed by Marsh, Ngaio
- Book ID
- 109159336
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 1956
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 484 KB
- Series
- Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 7
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007328758
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the seventh volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries
OFF WITH HIS HEAD
When the pesky Anna Bünz arrives at Mardian to investigate local folk-dancing, she quickly antagonizes the villagers. But Mrs Bünz is not the only source of friction. When the sword dancers' traditional mock beheading of the Winter Solstice becomes horribly real, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn finds himself faced with a complex case of gruesome proportions...
SINGING IN THE SHROUDS
On a cold February London night, the police find a corpse on the quayside, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer, who walked away singing, is known to be one of nine passengers on the cargo ship, Cape Farewell. Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins the ship on the most difficult assignment of his career...
FALSE SCENT...
BONUS STORY: My Poor Boy