[Roderick Alleyn 26] • Comme à Rome

**Death on a Guided Tour**

It was April in Rome, and gathered together in the church of San Tommaso in

Pallario was the kind of varied group of people that can only meet on a tour.

It included a superannuated jetsetter and her junkie nephew, a bad-tempered,

ultra-British major, a boisterous Baron and Baroness, and an extremely

reticent best-selling author. They were there under the aegis of one Sebastian

Mailer, who had promised them a most unconventional tour—a claim no one later

disputed, after encountering murder, blackmail and drug-running.

Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, in Rome on a special mission, became involved

in the case, and found it one of his most baffling—a case in which every

suspect might equally well prove a victim…

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