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Troy Alleyn wasn't sure why she accepted the commission to paint the portrait of the well-known actor Sir Henry Ancred. She arrived at Ancreton Manor to find Sir Henry in poor health and suffering a series of merciless practical jokes from his grandchildren. Then death visits the manor, and the family in mourning constitutes a formidable assembly: the self-important Pauline, the egregious Cedric, acquisitive Sonia, and Milly who laughs perpetually at nothing. Troy is overwhelmingly relieved by the arrival of her husband, the redoubtable Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard...
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Fiction, Fiction in English, New Zealand Detective and mystery stories, Police, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Translations into Russian, Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, England, fictionPlaces
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A Roderick Alleyn mystery.
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After a lethal birthday dinner of champagne and crayfish, famed Shakespearian actor Sir Henry is dead, and the cast of suspects is a mile long.
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