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Rich and arrogant, when Tylers love of good wine leads to the deaths of a young couple in a country lane in Kent, he drives his car to his extensive property in Mallorca so the English police can't examine it. When laid-back Mallorcan Inspector Alvarez is ordered to investigate whether Tyler is in the area, he's reluctant, to say the least. He soon discovers, however, that this routine inquiry has far-reaching consequences.
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"Inspector Alvarez is just considering whether he can leave early for the day without being detected when he receives a call to tell him that an Englishman has been found dead in his car in his garage, the engine switched on and the tank empty. Alvarez, chafing over the prospect of an evening on the job, proceeds to dead man's home to investigate the seeming suicide. However, when Doctor Antignac arrives, all Alvarez's hopes of a quick and easy case...
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British art dealer Oliver Cooper lived an apparently idyllic life on sun-soaked Mallorca, until he abruptly disappeared. Low-keyed, cognac-nipping, but always sharp-witted Inspector Enrique Alvarez is called upon to investigate the disappearance. Cooper is presumed dead and thought to have been considering suicide, but his car was abandoned and no one can find the body. Alvarez has just decided that suicide is out of the question when Cooper's body...
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Optimism, as Inspector Alvarez knows, is the road to calamity. But he is in a good mood, for once. The sun is shining, he has enjoyed a morning nap at his desk, and his irascible boss--Superior Chief Salas--is on holiday. But his new-found optimism soon leads to disaster. In no time at all, Alvarez is mired down by a seemingly impossible task--identifying a man drowned in the bay, who it quickly transpires may not have been drowned at all.
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"Wealthy and rakish Keith Vickers has lived at Ca'an Mortice, a luxurious estate on the Spanish island of Mallorca, ever since he experienced a series of failed business attempts back in England. Living off his inheritance and the profits of his latest corrupt property venture, Keith has dated and abandoned woman after woman."--Jacket.
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Dora Coates, who had once worked at an English country house, is found drowned on the island of Majorca. Inspector Alvarez traces her back to the family at the country house. He is led to believe that the circumstances of her death might be suspicious but as usual, he refuses to accept the obvious.
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The latest puzzle to rouse Enrique Alvarez's sleepy Spanish island begins with an Englishman hospitalized for a suspicious pattern of cigarette burns on his body. The fact that the burns form a circle on Franklin Gore's chest would indicate that he has been tortured, but if so, why would he insist that the burns are accidental? Faced with a stubborn Englishman who adamantly refuses all offers of police protection, Alvarez is almost convinced to let...
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On the Spanish island of Mallorca, a lady landowner is killed in a room locked from the inside. At first, the murder is attributed to some sharecropper--they are still obliged to surrender half their earnings--but as Inspector Alvarez digs deeper he learns of the presence of two Englishmen on the island. One is the lady's nephew, the other a known con man.
11) Just deserts
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Miriam Spiller was middle-aged, plain, and resident on Mallorca, where to the English colony's surprise, she had just become engaged. Her fiance was an unsuccessful novelist -- so unsuccessful that he risked deportation if he could not put down a lump sum forthwith to satisfy the Spanish authorities. Miriam talked bravely of borrowing the money for him, but instead she went back to her solitary flat and that night drank too much gin, staggered onto...
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When Majorcan Inspector Enrique Alvarez is called upon to investigate the death of a woman found shot dead in her own home, all the evidence seems to point to her husbands guilt. But Alvarez just doesnt believe Herod is guilty. His reason? Instinct. Which doesnt go down too well with his superiors, and Alvarez is forced to take a risk in the belief that justice should take precedence over the law ...
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Majorcan Inspector Enrique Alvarez is called out to investigate the seemingly routine accidental death of Englishman Jasper Vickers, but all is not as straightforward as it seems. Despite being made to hand the case over to the slick, suave Inspector Pocavi, Alvarez remains determined to solve the case in the hope that his imaginative approach might win the day.
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