THE NGAIO MARSH COLLECTION 10

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book the tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.BLACK AS HE'S PAINTEDCalled in to help with security arrangements for a presidential reception at a London embassy Chief Superintendent Alleyn ensures the house and grounds are stiff with police. Nevertheless an assassin strikes and Alleyn finds no shortage of help from Special Branch to a tribal court - and a small black cat named Lucy Lockett…LAST DITCHYoung Rickie Alleyn has come to the Channel Islands to write but village life seems tedious - until he finds the stablehand in a ditch dead from an unlucky jump. But Rickie notices something strange and his father Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is discreetly summoned to the scene when Rickie disappears…GRAVE MISTAKEWith two husbands dead a daughter marrying the wrong man and a debilitating disease it is no wonder that Sybil Foster took her own life. But Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn doesn't believe she was the type to kill herself - and he thinks someone else has made a very grave mistake…