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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 mysteries. SURFEIT OF LAMPREYS The 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 FOOTMAN It 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 SCHEME It 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…

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. A MAN LAY DEAD Sir Hubert Handesley’s extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder Game. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have skilful alibis – so Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to figure out the whodunit… ENTER A MURDERER The crime scene was the stage of the Unicorn Theatre, when prop gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using bribery instead of talent; and the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn’s most baffling cases… THE NURSING HOME MURDER A Harley Street surgeon and his attractive nurse are almost too nervous to operate. Their patient is the Home Secretary – and they both have very good personal reasons to want him dead. The operation is a complete success – but he dies within hours, and Inspector Alleyn must find out why…

La porta della biblioteca era leggermente socchiusa. Lei l’aprì, mosse due passi all’interno e, mentre stringeva ancora la maniglia, fu colpita alla testa. Le probabilità aumentano se il personale di servizio è composto interamente da assassini in cerca di riabilitazione dopo il carcere. La bizzarria della situazione lascia perplessa la pittrice Agatha Troy, invitata a dipingere il ritratto del padrone di casa, soprattutto in considerazione del fatto che è la moglie di Roderick Alleyn, sovrintendente di Scotland Yard. Quando poi il domestico di uno degli ospiti scompare durante i festeggiamenti, l’inevitabile sembra essersi verificato. Facile puntare il dito contro l’insolito staff di ex galeotti, ma è compito di un bravo investigatore non limitarsi all’ovvio e aggiungere alla lista dei sospettati tutti gli altri presenti, senza curarsi troppo della fedina penale. Proprio quello che farà Alleyn. Oltre, naturalmente, a risolvere il caso.