'Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder' Observer Life is a bed of roses for Patrick Aldermann when Great Aunt Florence collapses into her Madam Louis Laperrieres and he inherits Rosemont House with its splendid gardens. But when his boss, 'Dandy' Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter Pascoe that Aldermann is a murderer -- then retracts the accusation -- the inspector is left with a thorny problem. By then Police Cadet Singh, Mid-Yorkshire's first Asian copper, had dug up some very interesting information about Patrick's elegant wife Daphne. Superintendent Dalziel, meanwhile, is attempting to relive the days of Empire with Singh as his tea-wallah.
- ISBN10 0708913121
- ISBN13 9780708913123
- Publish Date June 1985 (first published 7 November 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 April 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Ulverscroft
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 528
- Language English