Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 10: Last Ditch, Black As He’s Painted, Grave Mistake

Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 10: Last Ditch, Black As He’s Painted, Grave Mistake
Ngaio Marsh

The tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.BLACK AS HE'S PAINTEDCalled 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 DITCHYoung 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 MISTAKEWith 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…

NGAIO MARSH

INSPECTOR ALLEYN 3-BOOK COLLECTION 10:

Black As He’s Painted, Last Ditch, Grave Mistake

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These novels are entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Black As He’s Painted first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1974 Last Ditch first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1977 Grave Mistake first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1978 Evil Liver first published in Great Britain in Death on the Air and Other Stories by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

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Cover (#ue1753a3e-cc37-56ae-aa34-fa288ed15104)

Title Page (#u622725f7-4f0c-51bb-8d83-43896c53d2b9)

Copyright (#u49e6288d-39a9-5208-a278-5f108d3bd178)

Black As He’s Painted (#u76fbac77-be66-503f-b10a-2353e56c1a58)

Last Ditch (#litres_trial_promo)

Grave Mistake (#litres_trial_promo)

BONUS STORY: Evil Liver (#litres_trial_promo)

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Part 2 (#litres_trial_promo)

Part 3 (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Black As He’s Painted (#ulink_61ff6042-64aa-509f-b8cf-329e32569710)

Dedication (#ulink_3db062fe-1f2d-504f-8007-f767182eb215)

For Roses and Mike with love

Contents

Title Page (#litres_trial_promo)

Dedication (#uda9f69b1-a7c9-57bf-ab34-5e560eacc422)

Cast of Characters (#uae898fbc-28a8-5d79-84e5-c38572ebbcc9)

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1 Mr Whipplestone (#uf89c4bc5-054f-55d1-9e0c-d22653b3d33c)

2 Lucy Lockett (#ud45a84eb-34b6-500d-8710-0d532523fe62)

3 Catastrophe (#ufbd0890d-99c5-5e29-a4ce-7d6eb584a6df)

4 Aftermath (#u6c5a443d-5e50-5b80-b049-13e5d1b0ae95)

5 Small Hours (#u0fe5838d-23aa-55de-97ee-cf15f05d6e73)