Clutch of Constables (Roderick Alleyn #25)
NY: Little, Brown & Co., 1969. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover textured. 5.5"x8.5" 182 pgs. Blue textured boards. Map in matching ink for paste downs. Jacket design by Feodor Rimsky. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not X-library, unmarked, unclipped (no price). Mild edge & shelf wear, mended .75" tear to back of DJ. Secure ship w/track #. Near Fine / VeryGood. Item #15919
Agatha Troy (the artist wife of Inspector Alleyn) has a special fondness for 19th century landscape painter John Constable's work, so she jumps at the chance to take a river-cruise through Constable country in the east of England. Her enthusiasm dims a little when it becomes clear that the ticket became available at the last minute only because a previous passenger was murdered, it seems, by a notorious international criminal known as the Jampot. The murder's don't stop there - and Troy finds herself caught in the middle of an international criminal ring - setting up a major art forging operation. Source: Publisher
Clutch of Constables is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-fifth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1968. Wikipedia.
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