RELATIVELY DANGEROUS (An Inspector Alvarez Mystery)

Roderic Jeffries

ISBN 10: 031201080X / ISBN 13: 9780312010805

Published by St. Martin's Press, NY, 1987

About this Item

Hardcover with minor wear, clean and tightly bound; an unmarked copy with bright and clean paper. Dust jacket with minor soiling, tiny tear with short crease, front flap corner crease, not price-clipped and very nice in a clear archival cover. An above average copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: RELATIVELY DANGEROUS (An Inspector Alvarez Mystery)
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, NY
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031201080X
• ISBN 13: 9780312010805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

Inspector Alvarez's investigation into a seemingly straightfoward fatal automobile accident in the mountains of Mallorca raises awkward questions about the identity of the victims and leads to the disclosure of painful and deadly secrets

Reviews

No fancy tricks, no contrivances, just probing intelligence and perseverance distinguish the work of Inspector Enrique Alvarez in the dogged Mallorquin's latest case. A car crashes on a winding mountain road outside Palma, leaving the driver dead, the passenger without memory and both men without papers. His memory returned, the passenger, a lone hitchhiker, identifies the driver, a recent visitor to the island with whom various British residents have had financial dealings. Considering the possibility of murder, Alvarez tracks leads gleaned from the dead man's papers, criss-crossing Mallorca from elegant villas to hillside bungalows, even flying to Barcelona and London, in spite of the grumbling derision of his superior. An old scam in England, bodies switched at a funeral, a bitter son with a charming cad of a dad, all figure in Alvarez's resolution of this complex and satisfying case. Self-indulgent and long-suffering, sleepy on the outside, sharp as a tack within, the warmhearted Inspector Alvarez is as complicated and admirable as his detective work.
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