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Loading... Rogues' Holiday (1935)by Maxwell March, Margery Allingham (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Basically, not so much a murder mystery as an adventure story.Written by Margery Allingham, I personally like it more than the Albert Campion series. Perhaps a bit old fashioned but nevertheless a wonderful read. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesDoubleday Crime Club (1935.26)
"An ace high mystery, with unexpected situations and new methods used by old rogues" from the Golden Age author of the Albert Campion series (Kirkus Reviews).
An apparent suicide at a posh men's club in London doesn't fool Scotland Yard Insp. David Blest. There's something fishy about the old man who quarreled with the victim the night before. The doggedly determined Blest can't let the matter rest and uses a leave from work to follow his suspect to the coast.
What Blest finds in Westbourne-on-Sea is sun, sand, and suspicious characters, including his elderly target acting as guardian to a sickly girl. But Miss Judy Wellington is only pretending to be ill. Unbeknownst to Blest, she's really an heiress with a secret inheritance-one that pays off big to her husband if she marries before she turns twenty-five. With only months to go before that deadline, vultures are circling around her. Her guardian's choice of a husband-a known conman-is killed. All Blest knows is that he's in... No library descriptions found.
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