Clutch of Constables

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel which features blood-curdling murders in the confines of a riverboat, the Zodiac, cruising through Constable country.-He looks upon the murders that he did in fact perform as tiresome and regrettable necessities,- reflected Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn on the international crook known as -the Jampot-.But it was Alleyn-s wife Troy who knew -the Jampot- best: she had shared close quarters with him on the tiny pleasure steamer Zodiac on a cruise along the peaceful rivers of -Constable country-. And it was she who knew something was badly wrong even before Alleyn was called in to solve the two murders on board-