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Black as He's Painted

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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…

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780007328789
Publication date: 7th January 2010
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 730 pages
Series: The Ngaio Marsh Collection
Genres: Classics
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Classic Crime and Mystery Fiction
Crime and mystery: police procedural
Thriller and Suspense