A Sunny Disappearance - Hardcover

Book 29 of 37: Inspector Alvarez

Jeffries, Roderic

 
9780727861955: A Sunny Disappearance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0727861956 ISBN 13: 9780727861955
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Life is hard, or so Alvarez judged before Maurice Rook set sail from Port Llueso in his luxury motor cruiser and disappeared - then it becomes very much harder. Noyes, working for an English firm of investigators, arrives on Majorca suspecting Rook did not died from accidental drowning, but has attempted to perpetrate an insurance fraud intended to recoup the money he lost in a proposed development in the south of the Peninsula. The investigation requires considerable work on Alvarez's part, in the course of which he becomes friendly with Gail, Rook's niece, and he tries, against his conscience, to use this friendship to learn from her whether Rook is, indeed, alive and well. Inevitably, Dolores suspects that far from pursuing his work, his growing friendship with Gail evidences his susceptibility to the charm of young, foreign women. As Alvarez sadly accepts, where emotions are concerned, women weave fantasies out of moonbeams...

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Review

"A wonderfully entertaining mystery" Booklist on A Sunny Disappearance "Brisk and brimming with irony, with a handsomely satisfying conclusion for the armchair detective" Kirkus on An Intriguing Murder "This is a series to savor for its distinctive flavor and the subtlety of its texture" Booklist on An Air of Murder "Fine work from a practiced hand" Library Journal on An Air of Murder"

Synopsis

Life is hard, or so Alvarez judged before Maurice Rook set sail from Port Llueso in his luxury motor cruiser and disappeared - then it becomes very much harder. Noyes, working for an English firm of investigators, arrives on Majorca suspecting Rook did not died from accidental drowning, but has attempted to perpetrate an insurance fraud intended to recoup the money he lost in a proposed development in the south of the Peninsula. The investigation requires considerable work on Alvarez's part, in the course of which he becomes friendly with Gail, Rook's niece, and he tries, against his conscience, to use this friendship to learn from her whether Rook is, indeed, alive and well. Inevitably, Dolores suspects that far from pursuing his work, his growing friendship with Gail evidences his susceptibility to the charm of young, foreign women. As Alvarez sadly accepts, where emotions are concerned, women weave fantasies out of moonbeams...

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Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0727861956
ISBN 13 
9780727861955
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256

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