Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George

Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George

An Inspector Lynley novel Delivering milk to Gabriella Patten at Celandine Cottage on a sunny April morning, Martin Snell cannot help noticing that something isn't quite right. The gate is off the latch for a start. Peering into the cottage, he sees the blackened armchair, the smoke-stained walls, and immediately telephones the police. But when the body is found it isn't Mrs Patten. It is Kenneth Fleming, England's star batsman, dead of asphyxiation, dead because someone wanted him to die. When Scotland Yard is called in by the local police force, Inspector Lynley and Detective Sergeant Havers are surprised to find themselves confronted by an almost embarrassing multitude of suspects, from Gabriella to the dead man's teenage son. Nearly everyone with whom Fleming was in contact seems to have a motive for murder - and most of them also seem to have had the opportunity.

Elizabeth George's first novel, A GREAT DELIVERANCE, was honoured with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France. That was followed by the critically acclaimed PAYMENT IN BLOOD and then WELL-SCHOOLED IN MURDER, which was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI, in 1990. Her later novels are the highly acclaimed A SUITABLE VENGEANCE, FOR THE SAKE OF ELENA, MISSING JOSEPH, PLAYING FOR THE ASHES and IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ENEMY. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London.

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ISBN 13	9780553815429
ISBN 10	0553815423
Titel	Playing for the Ashes
Autor	Elizabeth George
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-02-03
Seitenanzahl	688
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