Inspector Roderick Alleyn: A Grave Mistake (Paperback)

from LittleTaiko

It's been interesting to read this series in order. Her later books have more modern dialogue and the main characters are more relaxed with each other. This book finds Alleyn and company doing what they do best, poking around in a murder in a small village. The conversations between Alleyn and Fo...

from cannellfan

This was my first exposure to the Inspector Roderick Alleyn mysteries, and friends have told me that it probably wasn't the best one to read "first" (as it is near the end of the 30+ book series). Honestly, however, I enjoyed it. It's quite slow to get into at first, with perhaps too many charact...

from Abbess

1978, Inspector Alleyn, small village and upper crust-y society; cosy police procedural, classic. Story wonderful, narration poor. When a spoiled and self-indulgent middle-aged woman suddenly dies at a posh "rest hotel", the initial verdict appears to be suicide. But her many friends swear it was...

from bnielsen

England, ca 1978. En privatklinik er rammen for et mistænkeligt dødsfald. Sybil Foster er en ældre dame, der dør med en pæn dosis barbituratpiller i maven og munden. Hendes datter Prunella Foster finder til sin rædsel at moderen har skrevet testamente, hvor datteren arver, men kun hvis hun gifter...