A Surfeit of Lampreys / Death and the Dancing Footman / Colour Scheme

di Ngaio Marsh (Autore)

HarperCollins Publishers, 2009

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…

• Autore: Ngaio Marsh
• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers
• Collana: The Ngaio Marsh Collection
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 864 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• Peso: 580 gr.
• EAN: 9780007328727

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