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Rogues' Holiday (1935)

by Maxwell March, Margery Allingham (Author)

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"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...… (more)
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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. ( )
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"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...

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Inspector David Blest has two choices, jump or die. Trapped aboard a motor boat with a pistol to his head and the life of his unconscious companion on the line, he'd better make his decision quick. On the trail of the mysterious death of a gentleman in the Senior Buffs Club, young Inspector Blest is led to a fashionable seaside resort on the English coast, where the locals appear all too happy to help his investigation. Things take a turn when Blest meets Judy Wellington, an apparently sickly young woman desperate to escape her past. But who is Judy Wellington? What exactly is she running from? And how has Blest found himself the murderer's next target?
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