Unseemly End - Inspector Alvarez, Bk 6 Author:Roderic Jeffries Dolly Lund, widow of a scrap metal merchant, may have been one of the wealthiest women on Mallorca, but she certainly wasn't one of the most popular. No one ever wanted to go to her flauntingly vulgar parties--though those invited always went, if only to ensure their share of her lavish hospitality. Then Dolly died unregretted after overindu... more »lging at one of her own extravaganzas. Her impecunious young lover inherited virtually everything, and that was the end of that.
Or it would have been, if Inspector Alvarez hadn't discovered that Dolly did not die naturally. The principal beneficiary became the number one suspect. Only he happened to be in England on the night of the party, as Dolly's own daughter there could testify. Alvarez's efforts to trace his movements seemed nothing but a waste of time. Like speculating why Dolly had left a battered cigarette case to a young man she hardly knew. Or why her Spanish gardener had it in for her. Or why her daughter's pleas for financial help had been ignored. As always, Alvarez found plenty to interest him in the lives and habits of the English colony on Mallorca. And among them he found the murderer of Dolly Lund.« less