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Murder Delayed
Roderic Jeffries
An Inspector Alvarez mystery
It seems impossible: to find a man who stole half a million pounds from among thousands of tourists, with only a visual description. And not only does Alvarez have to do it, he also has a female dragon to contend with, Raquel Rexach, Dolores' old and much disliked schoolmate, whose jewellery has been reported stolen. Alvarez likes the quiet life, but even he cannot foresee where this investigation will lead . . .
UK edition
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Publication Date: 1 Jan 2006
ISBN: 9780727863362
Price: £18.99
Dimensions: 141 x 222
Extent: 208 pages
US edition
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Publication Date: 1 Apr 2006
ISBN: 9780727863362
Price: $27.95
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5
Extent: 208 pages
In Search of Murder
Sun, sea and murder - Mallorcan style...
Inspector Alvarez is rudely awakened from his afternoon siesta by a phone call reporting the death of one Senor Picare. It soon becomes clear that Senor Picare may have promised his young maid Marta - and other young women - more than he should have done, and there could be a fair number of disgruntled husbands and fathers around who had a reason to want him gone.
Alvarez's investigation, as always, is full of the vivid colour of Mallorcan life and passion, and despite Superior Chief Salas' instructions, he doggedly follows his own - often unconventional - path until he finds out the truth...
Murdered by Nature
Optimism, as Inspector Alvarez knows, is the road to calamity . . .
Inspector Alvarez is in a good mood, for once. The sun is shining, he has enjoyed a morning nap at his desk, and his irascible boss - Superior Chief Salas - is on holiday. But his new-found optimism soon leads to disaster. In no time at all, Alvarez is mired down by a seemingly impossible task - identifying a man drowned in the bay, who it quickly transpires may not have been drowned at all . . .
Murder, Majorcan Style
An Inspector Alvarez Mystery.
Inspector Alvarez is just considering whether he can surreptitiously leave work early when a colleague calls to tell him that an Englishman has been found dead in his car in his garage, the engine on and the tank empty. Alvarez, chafing over the prospect of an evening on the job, proceeds to the scene, but his hopes of a quick and easy case are dashed - for while the man was found in a car full of fumes, it appears the cause of death was not carbon-monoxide poisoning . . .
A Question of Motive
When there is nothing to choose between accident, suicide, or murder, motive is the only clue
A rich Englishman is found dead at the foot of a steep wall of rock in Mallorca. Was it accident, suicide or murder? Inspector Alvarez thinks only motive will provide the answer. But he quickly discovers the dead man can be linked to just about every other English person on the island, including Mary, the dead man's niece and heir to his fortune, to whom Alvarez is becoming uncomfortably close . . .
Sun, Sea and Murder
An Inspector Alvarez Mystery
Rich and arrogant, when Tyler's love of good wine leads to the deaths of a young couple in a country lane in Kent, he drives his car to his extensive property in Mallorca so the English police can't examine it. When laid-back Mallorcan Inspector Alvarez is ordered to investigate whether Tyler is in the area, he's reluctant, to say the least. He soon discovers, however, that this routine inquiry has far-reaching consequences . . .
An Instinctive Solution
An Inspector Alvarez mystery
When Majorcan Inspector Enrique Alvarez is called upon to investigate the death of a woman found shot dead in her own home, all the evidence seems to point to her husband's guilt. But Alvarez just doesn't believe Herod is guilty. His reason? Instinct. Which doesn't go down too well with his superiors, and Alvarez is forced to take a risk in the belief that justice should take precedence over the law . . .
Murder Needs Imagination
Inspector Alvarez must solve the case using a little imagination
Majorcan Inspector Enrique Alvarez is called out to investigate the seemingly routine accidental death of Englishman Jasper Vickers, but it is not as straightforward as it seems. Despite being made to hand the case over to the slick, suave Inspector Pocavi, Alvarez remains determined to solve the case in the hope that his imaginative approach might win the day . . .