num_pages: 256
description: Who had a hand in the murder of a country gent?All manner of friction fills the English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. Until one of them, after a flamboyant dowager's treasure hunt party, is found murdered-face down in the mire of an open drain. Which of Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's suspects-linked by a tangled set of relationships-wore a crucial, missing pair of gloves to commit this dirty deed?
language: English
title: Hand In Glove
titlecomplete: Hand In Glove
characters: Sir James Curtis, Detective-Sergeant Thompson, Alfred Belt, Percival Pyke Period, Harold Cartell, Leonard Leiss, Inspector Fox, Nicola  Maitland-Mayne, Andrew Bantling, Mrs Mitchell, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, Constance Cartell, Desirée, Lady Bantling, George Copper, Superintendent Williams, Sergeant Raikes, Detective-Sergeant Bailey, Mary "Moppett" Ralston, Mrs Nicholls, Bimbo Dodds
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Golden Age Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Police, Classics, Crime
ratings_count: 2433
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: St. Martin's Dead Letter