The Shadow Murders Margery Allingham Macmillan Collector's Library FFC|FJ Hardback 2017 It's the height of summer

It's the height of summer and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac a housewife is scrubbing the yellow and white checked tiles of the bathroom floor

she was saved from a grisly fate

mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated

as Wordsworth puts it

That's what I do

The Shadow Murders Margery Allingham Macmillan Collector's Library FFC|FJ Hardback 2017 It's the height of summerOn her 60th birthday, a woman commits suicide. When the case lands on Detective Carl Morck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems to be clear. But his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this is not in fact a suicide, but a murder related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988. At Marcus' behest, Carl and the