Lord Pastern and Baggot is given to passionate, peculiar enthusiasms, the latest of which is drumming in a jazz band. His wife is not amused, and even less so when her daughter falls for Carlos Rivera, the band’s sleazy accordion player. Nobody likes Rivera very much, so there’s a wealth of suspects when he is shot in the middle of a performance. Happily, Inspector Alleyn is in the audience, ready solve the murder.
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Swing, Brother, Swing (Roderick Alleyn Series #15)
Lord Pastern and Baggot is given to passionate, peculiar enthusiasms, the latest of which is drumming in a jazz band. His wife is not amused, and even less so when her daughter falls for Carlos Rivera, the band’s sleazy accordion player. Nobody likes Rivera very much, so there’s a wealth of suspects when he is shot in the middle of a performance. Happily, Inspector Alleyn is in the audience, ready solve the murder.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781937384494 |
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| Publisher: | Felony & Mayhem Press |
| Publication date: | 12/15/2012 |
| Series: | Roderick Alleyn Series , #15 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 270 |
| Sales rank: | 15,999 |
| File size: | 576 KB |
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