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Authors: Roderic Jeffries

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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?

About the Author

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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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

About the Author

Also by Roderic Jeffries

Copyright

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

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