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Playing for the Ashes

By (author): Elizabeth George
Published by: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publication date: 03/Feb/2003
Format: Paperback - 688 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 178 x 106
ISBN-10: 0553815423
ISBN-13: 9780553815429
Categories:
> Crime & Thriller

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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.

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