Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 4: A Surfeit of Lampreys, Death and the Dancing Footman, Colour Scheme

Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 4: A Surfeit of Lampreys, Death and the Dancing Footman, Colour Scheme
Ngaio Marsh

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 mysteriesSURFEIT 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…

NGAIO MARSH

Ngaio Marsh Volume 4

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Surfeit of Lampreys first published in Great Britain by Collins 1941 Death and the Dancing Footman first published in Great Britain by Collins 1942 Colour Scheme first published in Great Britain by Collins 1943 A Fool About Money first published in Great Britain in Death on the Air and Other Stories by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

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CONTENTS

Cover (#uade924ed-8352-5812-81d0-6a616f580bb7)

Title Page (#ufd6d00b8-00b3-5ead-88c4-ad59d1ccedd5)

Copyright (#uf551a1a1-f5cf-53cc-8e5b-3a32ac971157)

A Surfeit of Lampreys (#udf4b60cb-aaae-5a2f-9ff0-44657e791cfc)

Death and the Dancing Footman (#litres_trial_promo)

Colour Scheme (#litres_trial_promo)

BONUS STORY: A Fool About Money (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Surfeit of Lampreys (#ulink_5206759d-26d4-5cbb-a16b-3ad11f2291c8)

DEDICATION (#ulink_d5beade3-07d7-521d-a199-33e579b96fad)

For SIR HUGH & LADY ACLAND

with my love

For the one since he has helped me so often with my stories and for the other since she likes stories about London

CONTENTS

Title Page (#udf4b60cb-aaae-5a2f-9ff0-44657e791cfc)

Dedication (#ue08a52ef-9895-557e-95a2-6396a965b2ec)

Characters in the Story (#u7c861178-7608-5f43-9feb-b5da6c054485)

I. Prelude in New Zealand (#u933d07fd-2dae-5bad-9675-a0346b6141bc)

II. Arrival In London (#u16cabe2e-bc42-57e6-a2b2-05742ea79178)

III. Preparation for a Charade (#u46d656f9-c0c3-5fd5-999a-7502761861f9)

IV. Uncle G. (#u22a4a8b0-c4c1-5b6b-b62f-17aeea4e9f70)

V. Mike Puts the Pot On (#ucc9809a8-e9a7-522f-8f47-39fdc8c4029d)

VI. Catastrophe (#ud06a1a4f-ac01-5daf-bfb2-1bb8fc92546c)

VII. Death of a Peer (#u1576ae55-975c-5d0a-84b7-08ff02fb88d4)

VIII. Alleyn Meets the Lampreys (#uf3d7526d-9689-5a81-9349-227fa42e7ab3)

IX. Two, Two, the Lily-White Boys (#u0f7458f2-a376-5cf4-a534-65f7be31bb36)

X. Statement from a Small Boy (#ue1349452-cfa3-56f6-94ec-f03ee93a7d4a)

XI. Conversation Piece (#u91edfd60-d922-5ba8-b8a4-1a783b7650b3)

XII. According to the Widow (#u7d38b37b-4a4d-55c2-84b7-e2db76c05b28)