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The Spoilt Kill

Mary Kelly

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#1467 of 8,085 books · #467 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (1961).

Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes have been called to a gloomy flat off Islington High Street. An elderly woman--Princess Olga Karukhin, an emigrant of Civil War Russia--lies dead on the bed, and her trunk has been looted of its glittering treasure. Out in the festive chaos of the capital a colourful cast of suspects abound: the downtrodden grandson, a plutocratic jeweller, Bolsheviks with unfinished business. Beddoes and Nightingale have their work cut out solving the case.

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Publisher
British Library Crime Classics
ISBN-13
9781464212284
Topics
Murder investigationTheft and stolen treasureRussian émigré heritage

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