Dead Water / Black As He's Painted / Artists in Crime

DEAD WATER
Times are good in the Cornish village of Portcarrow, as hundreds of unfortunates flock to taste the miraculous waters of Pixie Falls. Then Miss Emily Pride inherits Portcarrow and wants to put an end to the villagers' thriving trade in miracle cures especially Miss Elspeth Cost's gift shop.
But someone puts an end to Miss Cost herself...

BLACK AS HE'S PAINTED
When the President of Ng'ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old school mate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn is called in to try to persuade him otherwise. Alleyn performs his mission so successfully that on the night of the Ng'ombwanan Embassy's reception the house and grounds are stiff with police. However, an assassin does strike, and Alleyn discovers a wealth of suspects in a coterie of ex-colonials residing in the very shadow of the Embassy...

ARTISTS IN CRIME
It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place.
But before Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest. The model will never move again. It's a difficult case for Inspector Alleyn. He's in love with Agatha Troy, but no-one can be above suspicion...