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Authors: Roderic Jeffries
He drew out on to the tarmac road, only to slow down for the corner that was narrowed where a house stuck a metre out into it. Beyond, in a field, a sow, surrounded by many piglets, rooted in the ground below a fig tree. Was there a chance that Dolores was cooking porcella for lunch?
Roderic Jeffries
was born in London in 1926 and was educated at Southampton's School of Navigation. In 1943 he went to sea with the New Zealand Shipping Company and returned to England in 1949 where he was subsequently called to the Bar. He practiced law for a brief period before starting to write full time. His books have been published in many different countries and have been adapted for film, television, and radio. He and his wife live in Mallorca, and have two children. You can sign up for email updates
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AN ENIGMATIC DISAPPEARANCE
A MAZE OF MURDERS
AN ARTISTIC WAY TO GO
AN ARCADIAN DEATH
DEATH TAKES TIME
MURDER CONFOUNDED
MURDER'S LONG MEMORY
A FATAL FLEECE
TOO CLEVER BY HALF
DEAD CLEVER
DEATH TRICK
RELATIVELY DANGEROUS
ALMOST MURDER
LAYERS OF DECEIT
THREE AND ONE MAKE FIVE
DEADLY PETARD
UNSEEMLY END
JUST DESERTS
MURDER BEGETS MURDER
TROUBLED DEATHS
TWO-FACED DEATH
MISTAKENLY IN MALLORCA
DEAD MAN'S BLUFF
A TRAITOR'S CRIME
A DEADLY MARRIAGE
DEATH IN THE COVERTS
DEAD AGAINST THE LAWYERS
AN EMBARRASSING DEATH
THE BENEFITS OF DEATH
EXHIBIT NO. THIRTEEN
EVIDENCE OF THE ACCUSED
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THE AMBIGUITY OF MURDER
. Copyright © 1999 by Roderic Jeffries. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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ISBN 0-312-26968-4
First published in Great Britain by Collins Crime, an imprint of HarperCollins
Publishers
First St. Martin's Minotaur Edition: May 2001
eISBN 9781250101853
First eBook edition: September 2015