Dead Water

£6.49

Dead Water

Classic fiction: general and literary Classic crime and mystery fiction Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives Historical crime and mysteries Crime and mystery: cosy mystery Crime and mystery: police procedural Crime and mystery: women sleuths Narrative theme: Sense of place Fiction: pastiche

Author: Ngaio Marsh

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Collection: The Ngaio Marsh Collection #23

Language: English

Published by: HarperCollins

Published on: 7th January 2010

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 776 Kb

ISBN: 9780007344796


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A quirky Roderick Alleyn mystery about faith, greed – and murder.

Times are good in the Cornish village of Portcarrow, as hundreds of unfortunates flock to taste the miraculous waters of Pixie Falls.

Then Miss Emily Pride inherits the celebrated land on which Portcarrow stands and wants to put an end to the villagers’ thriving trade in miracle cures, especially Miss Elspeth Costs’s gift shop.

But someone puts an end to Miss Cost herself, and Miss Pride’s guardian angel, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, finds himself on the spot in both senses of the word…

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