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Grave Mistake and Two Other Great Mysteries
Grave Mistake and Two Other Great Mysteries Author:Ngaio Marsh Sybil Foster was a dedicated hypochondriac who cured herself regularly at the fashionable rest home Greengages. In recent days her gardener had died, and it began to look as if her daughter would never marry. And since the new director of Greengages was an eligible bachelor, Sybil decided she needed a rest. It turned out to be permanent. The off... more »icial cause of death is listed as suicide, but when suave, unflappable Superintendent Roderick Alleyn investigates Sybil's background, he realizes suicide would have been completely out of character for her. Yet who would want to kill her? Certainly not her daughter, who had announced her engagement just hours before her mother's death... not Bruce, her new gardener, who was so devoted to her... not Dr. Schramm, who doesn't need patients dying in his rest home... not the Greek tycoon whose wealth surpasses even Sybil's. That leaves only Claude, Sybil's ne'er-do-well stepson, who's been missing since the night of the murder. But further investigation convinces Alleyn that no one involved in the case is what he or she first appears to be, and he is forced to take a desperate, last-minute gamble to reveal the killer.« less