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NGAIO MARSH
INSPECTOR ALLEYN 3-BOOK COLLECTION 8:
Death at the Dolphin, Hand in Glove, Dead Water
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Hand in Glove first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1962 Dead Water first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1973 Death at the Dolphin first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1967 The Cupid Mirror first published in Death on the Air and Other Stories in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1962, 1963, 1966
The Cupid Mirror copyright © Ngaio Marsh (Jersey) Limited 1989
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CONTENTS
Copyright
Hand in Glove
Dead Water
Death at the Dolphin
BONUS STORY: The Cupid Mirror
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
for Jonathan Elsom
CONTENTS
Dedication
Cast of Characters
1. Mr Pyke Period
2. Luncheon
3. Aftermath to a Party
4. Alleyn
5. Postscript to a Party
6. Interlude
7. Pixie
8. Period Piece
| Alfred Belt | Manservant to Mr Period |
| Mrs Mitchell | Cook to Mr Period |
| Mr Percival Pyke Period | |
| Nicola Maitland-Mayne | |
| Desirée, Lady Bantling | Now Mrs Bimbo Dodds, formerly Mrs Harold Cartell. Née Desirée Ormsbury |
| Andrew Bantling | Her son by her first marriage |
| Bimbo Dodds | Her third and present husband |
| Mr Harold Cartell | Her second husband |
| Constance Cartell | His sister |
| Trudi | Her maid |
| Mary Ralston (Moppett) | Her adopted niece |
| Leonard Leiss | |
| George Copper | Garage proprietor |
| Mrs Nicholls | Wife of Vicar of Ribblethorpe |
| Superintendent Williams | Little Codling constabulary |
| Sergeant Raikes | Little Codling constabulary |
| A Foreman drainlayer | |
| Superintendent Roderick Alleyn | CID New Scotland Yard |
| Inspector Fox | CID New Scotland Yard |
| Detective-Sergeant Thompson | CID New Scotland Yard |
| Detective-Sergeant Bailey | CID New Scotland Yard |
| Sir James Curtiss | Pathologist |
| Dr Elekton, MD |