{"product_id":"9780007328727","title":"A Surfeit of Lampreys \/ Death and the Dancing Footman \/ Colour Scheme : Book 4","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Marsh, Ngaio\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic crime\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 29 October 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperCollins) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Ngaio Marsh Collection' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 864 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 131 x 59 | 594g\u003cp\u003eCommemorating 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marsh, Ngaio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51596835258552,"sku":"9780007328727","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780007328727.jpg?v=1753872214","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780007328727","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}