Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (180p) ISBN 978-0-312-02189-4
Jeffries treats his fans to the seventh elegantly humorous, captivating mystery starring Inspector Enrique Alvarez of Mallorca. Deceptively unassuming, the detective is known for his penetrating insights but has to rely more on plodding footwork to...
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Roderic Jeffries. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8353-7
Insp. Enrique Alvarez doesn’t mind investigating crimes, as long as the work doesn’t interfere with eating proper meals, drinking the right drinks, and getting enough rest, as shown in Jeffries’s 37th mystery featuring the easygoing Mallorcan...
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Roderic Jeffries. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8147-2
Jeffries, who’s been turning out tart, snappy mysteries set in Majorca since 1974, shows no sign of losing steam in the 36th entry in his Inspector Alvarez series (after 2011’s Murder, Majorcan Style). When the body of a man, eventually identified...
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Roderic Jeffries. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8043-7
At the start of this easygoing entry in Jeffries's long-running Inspector Alvarez series (A Question of Motive, etc.), a phone call from Tomeu, a colleague in the Mallorcan police department, interrupts the inspector's reveries about the delicious...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5907-5
British author Jeffries s latest Inspector Alvarez mystery suffers from too many parallels to his recent An Artful Death (2002). Once again, this engaging sleuth is investigating a possibly suspicious drowning of a wealthy, philandering expat, who...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-26968-5
Murder will out, and does, in this latest addition (after 2000's An Enigmatic Disappearance) to the long-running and well-loved Inspector Alvarez series. Set as usual on Jeffries's home island of Mallorca, it features fair-play detection and (more
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Roderic Jeffries, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-26583-0
Despite a lackluster title, Jeffries's 21st installment in his series featuring Mallorca-based policeman Enrique Alvarez provides the smooth entertainment readers have come to anticipate and relish. The expatriate community resident on Mallorca can't
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Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-18135-2
Mallorcan Inspector Enrique Alvarez combines love of food, comfort and truth in another satisfying mystery (which follows An Artistic Way to Go, 1997). A middle-aged man with a bit of a middle-age spread, Alvarez takes a diligent, unhurried approach
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Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11260-8
Once again the long-suffering Inspector Enrique Alvarez of Majorca is pitted against his demanding boss in Madrid and his bossy sister-in-law-and, in this latest case (after Murder Confounded), three puzzling murders. An Englishwoman dies in a fall...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-312-09877-3
Embracing equal parts charm and cunning, Inspector Enrique Alvarez of Majorca knows his Mediterranean island to be both a tourist trap and a land of magic. It seems not so much the latter when Englishman Franklin Gore is hospitalized with serious...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-312-04987-4
A thoughtful and sensitive man, Inspector Enrique Alvarez of the police headquarters in Mallorca readily believes the evidence that indicates the cause of death of a British expatriate was suicide. However, Alvarez ( Dead Clever ), sympathizes with...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-07039-7
In this adroit addition to Jeffries's stylish series ( Too Clever by Half ), Inspector Enrique Alvarez of the Cuerpo General de Policia, Mallorca, Spain, is suspicious of wealthy (and obnoxious) immigrant Giovanni Gaspari, who first reports a life-th
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Roderic Jeffries, Author . Severn $25.99 (250p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5730-9
The prolific Jeffries returns with yet another polished tale featuring Mallorquin policeman Enrique Alvarez, last seen in The Ambiguity of Murder
(2001). Miguel Munar, related by marriage to Alvarez's cousin Dolores, is suspected of smuggling....
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Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-01080-5
No fancy tricks, no contrivances, just probing intelligence and perseverance distinguish the work of Inspector Enrique Alvarez in the dogged Mallorquin's latest case. A car crashes on a winding mountain road outside Palma, leaving the driver dead,...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-02137-5
Fans of Inspector Alvarez (Layers of Deceit, etc.) will rejoice that their commonsensical, brandy-nipping, rather indolent and put-upon hero is back. Two Englishmen, one an M.P., are blown up in a yacht explosion off Mallorca. Officials in Madrid (""
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Roderic Jeffries, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-02899-2
Inspector Enrique Alvarez of the Mallorcan police must solve a case of insurance fraud and possible murder in his eighth appearance (following Relatively Dangerous ). While the insurance scam involves an Englishman, Timothy Green, who may or may not
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Roderic Jeffries, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6050-7
The Mallorcan policeman looks into the suspicious drowning of an English tourist.
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Roderic Jeffries, Author . Severn $27.95 (172p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6857-2
Last seen in 2009's Sun, Sea, and Murder
, Mallorcan Insp. Enrique Alvarez reluctantly investigates Englishman Robin Gill's fatal fall from a high rock in this lackluster entry in Jeffries's long-running series. A postmortem suggests...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author . Severn $27.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6747-6
Mallorcan Insp. Enrique Alvarez has his priorities, and pursuing criminals is far down a list headed by good food, good liquor (preferably cognac) and plenty of rest and relaxation, as shown in his latest outing in Jeffries's long-running...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author . Severn $27.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6595-3
In Jeffries’s superior 32nd Inspector Alvarez mystery (after 2007’s Murder Needs Imagination
), the Mallorcan policeman investigates the murder of a well-to-do woman, Señora Heron, whose husband finds her lying on their bedroom...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author . Severn $27.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6480-2
One doesn't read a new Inspector Alvarez mystery so much as savor it. Much of the pleasure is in the ritual, which rarely varies: a crime is committed; Alvarez is summoned by Salas, his eternally irritating superior; then Alvarez goes about his...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author . Severn $27.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6336-2
Prolific British author Jeffries's latest Inspector Alvarez mystery offers the usual pleasures—subtle innuendo, bittersweet commentaries on the vagaries of life and flavorful descriptions of the island of Mallorca. Enrique Alvarez, harried,
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Roderic Jeffries, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-30745-5
Inspector Enrique Alvarez, whose beat is the Spanish island of Mallorca, is roused out of his customary indolence when Keith Vickers, an affluent and rakish British émigré, goes missing in this accomplished whodunit from British expat...
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Roderic Jeffries, Author . Severn $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5811-5
In the latest addition to this popular series, Jeffries (Definitely Deceased) takes us back to his adopted home on sunny Mallorca, where bumbling Inspector Enrique Alvarez, Cuerpo General de Policia, has several intriguing cases to investigate. A...
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