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 |
| Title | Playing for the Ashes |
| Author | Elizabeth George |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-02-03 |
| Number of pages | 688 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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