Roderic Jeffries

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Oklahoma

Troubled Deaths 10489

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Investigating the disappearance of Oliver Cooper, Inspector Alvarez has just ruled out suicide when Cooper's decidedly dead body shows up in his own home with a smashed watch that may indicate his time of death and lead to his killer.

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Texas

An Inspector Alvarez Novel

Inspector Enrique Alvarez investigates the mysterious death of British art dealer Oliver Cooper on the Spanish island of Majorca.

An Artistic Way to Go - First U S. Edition 

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Missouri

Inspector Alvarez is just considering whether he can leave early for the day without being detected when Tomeou, a policeman from Port Lluesco with whom Alvarez has enjoyed many a night out, calls to tell him that an Englishman has been found dead in his car in his garage, the engine switched on and the tank empty.

Murder, Majorcan Style

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New Jersey

"An Englishwoman living in France falls through a balcony railing (or was she pushed?). An Englishman whose rented car showed a Spanish registration visited her in France on the day she died. (He drove a white Escort, and how long would it take to trace it through all the rentals in Spain?) Days later, an Englishman living in Spain dies from a heroin overdose - although he wasn't an addict. A lazy detective in Spain feels quite put out when he's asked to solve this baffling international case." "Inspector Enrique Alvarez, the slow-moving but fast-witted Mallorcan detective, has delighted mystery readers with his complaints and solutions through sixteen cases. This time, fighting his never-ending appetite and his penchant for long afternoon siestas, as well as his cranky supervisor, Alvarez struggles to find a way to explain the connection between the deaths of two English citizens, one in France and one on his beloved island, that occurred too close together for one person to have killed the other."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Death Takes Time

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California

There is no real justice in the world...

Elvina Woods's death at her home in Mallorca is sudden and unexpected.

Another few days and her great-nephew would have inherited, through her, enough to buy the English farm he craves.

So when he returns to the house and finds her dead, his first thought is to conceal her death for a short time, his second how to do it.

It is only after that begins to question whether such an action was wise...

But - still grieving for his recently murdered fiancée - John Tatham already has enough reason to despise the law's insistence on the letter rather than the spirit. And he plans his deception carefully.

Elvina was not exactly popular with the English community on the island, nor with certain Mallorquins. And with her peculiar reputation, oft to acting impulsively, few would enquire about the mad woman if she were not seen around.

And when, later, her body was discovered, her death would be seen to be a fatal accident ...

Unfortunately, Tatham fails to reckon with Inspector Alvarez, the local policeman, with whom he has more in common than he thought.

And he fails to reckon with the fact that to a policeman his own role would look highly suspect.

Has Tatham in effect framed himself? And has he, in doing so, inadvertently involved himself in another's crime?

Mistakenly in Mallorca is filled with ingenious twist and turns that will keep you hooked.




PRAISE FOR RODERIC JEFFRIES

'A first-rate whodunit turning on the resourcefulness of a country gentleman who exploits the process of the law to delay its action. Author on the top of his legal and social form.' - Francis Goff, The Sunday Telegraph

'Roderic Jeffries established a very high reputation for himself.' -Maurice Richardson, The Observer

'The resulting legal intricacies make fascinating reading.' - Hester Makeig, The Spectator

'First-class, smoothly told, fine court scenes and sketches of lawyers entirely absorbing.' - John Clarke, Evening Standard

'The most ingenious of Mr. Jeffries's exercises in legal trickery.' - Julian Symons, The Sunday Times

'...is for the mystery story connoisseur and particularly the man who can appreciate this ingenious exercise in legal trickery.' - Police World

Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and was educated at Harrow View House Preparatory School and the Department of Navigation, University of Southampton. In 1943, he joined the New Zealand Shipping Company as an apprentice and sailed to Australia and New Zealand, but later transferred to the Union Castle Company in order to visit a different part of the world. He returned to England in 1949 where he was admitted to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn and read for the Bar at the same time as he began to write. He was called to the Bar in 1953, and after one year's pupilage, practiced law for a few terms during which time there to write full time. His first book, a sea story for juveniles, was published in 1950.

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