Air of Murder
Roderic Jeffries. Severn House Publishers, $26.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-7278-6050-7
The Mallorcan policeman looks into the suspicious drowning of an English tourist.
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Reviewed on: 02/01/2004
Genre: Fiction
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