Clutch Of Constables (Roderick Alleyn, #25)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780515087758 (0515087750)
Publish date: October 1st 1986
Publisher: Jove
Pages no: 213
Edition language: English
Series: Roderick Alleyn 1 (#25)
A Troy book, which is an advantage, but I wasn't enamoured of the 'giving a lecture' structure - perhaps I have some difficulty believing Alleyn would discuss his wife in such detail.Again a book dealing with a spinster-of-a-problematic-age, this one using the not uncommon plot device of a person wh...
[These notes made in 1984:]. This Marsh involves Troy, Inspector Alleyn's wife, who is an artist. Almost inevitably, then, it also involves an art forgery ring. I am not sure that I would have guessed correctly who killed the tedious but harmless spinster, had it not been for the giveaway picture on...