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Murder Begets Murder

By Roderic Jeffries

The English community on Mallorca were sorry for William Heron. The reclusive, wealthy invalid had come to the island accompanied by his mistress, and now there were indications that while he lay dying, she was carrying on with another man. So no one mourned when it was discovered that instead of leaving the island as she had planned, shortly after his funeral, she had died alone in the house from food poisoning.

Conveniently – too conveniently for Inspector Alvarez – it was no longer possible to determine the poison which had caused her death. If he was right in suspecting it had been deliberately administered, much depended on whether there was any truth in the rumour that she had had another lover, and who the man might be. His enquiries did nothing but arouse hostility among the English residents. Not until he was on a thoroughly unenjoyable professional visit to England did the Mallorquin detective chance to learn something that convinced him that murder could beget murder…

Celebrated alike for their portrayal of a Mallorca very different from the one the tourists annually encounter, and the intricate convolutions of their plots, Roderic Jeffries’s crime novels have established themselves steadily. Murder Begets Murder is the fourth book in the Inspector Alvarez mystery series.

Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926. He was educated at Harrow View House Preparatory School and the School of Navigation, Southampton University. He went to sea in 1943 in the New Zealand Shipping Company, but came ashore in 1949, when he read for the Bar and began writing. He was called to the Bar and served one year’s pupilage, then practised for a further year. During this time he conducted seven cases to the detriment of the seven clients, after which he decided to turn to writing full time. He is married, with one son and one daughter, and in 1972 he moved to Mallorca to see if this would help his daughter’s health. His books have been filmed, televised broadcast, and published in sixteen countries.

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