An arcadian death -

Roderic Jeffries

Harper Collins Publishers

1995

188 páginas

6h 16m

ISBN-10: 000232542X

In the isolated Canegot Valley miserly recluse Dona Beatriz Ruig is found death in a locked room. The arrogant local police officer, Garicano, writes it up as accidental death, but whrn he has a car crash Inspector Alvarez is assigned to complete the investigation. Alvarez talks to the villagers, befriending their "headman", Frederico Ferrer, and soon becomes convinced that far from being accidental, Dona Beatriz's death was murder... His discovery that the dead woman was involved with dodgy investiments and conman trying to get her to sell her land only adds to his certainty that a crime has been committed. When his irascible Superior Chief, Salas, take Alvarez off the case, it look as though the mystery may never be solved, but then there is another death, setting in motion a train os shocking revelations that finally lead Alvarez to the truth...