Description
| Product ID: | 9780007328727 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Ngaio Marsh Collection |
| Title: | A Surfeit of Lampreys / Death and the Dancing Footman / Colour Scheme |
| Authors: | Author: Ngaio Marsh |
| Page Count: | 864 |
| Subjects: | Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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 LAMPREYSThe 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 FOOTMANIt 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 SCHEMEIt 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… |
| Imprint Name: | HarperCollins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-10-29 |
