Page 27 of Grave Mistake


  He picked up her hands and beat them gently together. ‘You will, of course, take advice. It will be a momentous decision. But if,’ said Mr Markos, kissing first one hand and then the other, ‘if after due deliberation you decide to sell, may your father-in-law have the first refusal? Speaking quite cold-bloodedly, of course,’ said Mr Markos.

  The well-dressed, expensively gloved and strikingly handsome passenger settled into his seat and fastened his belt.

  Heathrow had passed off quietly.

  He wondered when it would be advisable to return. Not, he fancied, for some considerable time. As they moved off the label attached to an elegant suitcase in the luggage rack slipped down and dangled over his head.

  Dr Basil Schramm

  Passenger to New York

  Concorde

  Flight 123.

  BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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  Death in Ecstasy

  Vintage Murder

  Artists in Crime

  Death in a White Tie

  Overture to Death

  Death at the Bar

  Surfeit of Lampreys

  Death and the Dancing Footman

  Colour Scheme

  Died in the Wool

  Final Curtain

  Swing, Brother, Swing

  Opening Night

  Spinsters in Jeopardy

  Scales of Justice

  Off With His Head

  Singing in the Shrouds

  False Scent

  Hand in Glove

  Dead Water

  Death at the Dolphin

  Clutch of Constables

  When in Rome

  Tied up in Tinsel

  Black As He’s Painted

  Last Ditch

  Grave Mistake

  Photo-Finish

  Light Thickens

  Black Beech and Honeydew (autobiography)

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  Grave Mistake first published in Great Britain by Collins 1978

  Ngaio Marsh asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works

  Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1978

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