Black as He's Painted

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. BLACK AS HE'S PAINTED Called in to help with security arrangements for a presidential reception at a London embassy, Chief Superintendent Alleyn ensures the house and grounds are stiff with police. Nevertheless, an assassin strikes, and Alleyn finds no shortage of help, from Special Branch to a tribal court - and a small black cat named Lucy Lockett! LAST DITCH Young Rickie Alleyn has come to the Channel Islands to write, but village life seems tedious - until he finds the stablehand in a ditch, dead from an unlucky jump. But Rickie notices something strange and his father, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, is discreetly summoned to the scene, when Rickie disappears! GRAVE MISTAKE With two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and a debilitating disease, it is no wonder that Sybil Foster took her own life. But Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn doesn't believe she was the type to kill herself - and he thinks someone else has made a very grave mistake!

ISBN 0007328788   Pages 752 ISBN13 9780007328789 (What's this?)   Part volume WITH Last Ditch, AND Grave Mistake Publisher HarperCollins Publishers   Weight (grammes) 501 Imprint Harper   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title The Ngaio Marsh Collection Publication date 07 Jan 2010   Height (mm) 197 DEWEY 823.914   Width (mm) 130 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." --"New York "magazine

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