Dead water
By: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Copyright date: 1963
Subjects: Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character); Police; Fiction
Description: Faith healing can be fatal

When intrepid octogenarian Emily Pride inherits an island, and the miraculous properties of its "Pixie Falls" healing spring, she is shocked by all the vulgarity. The admission fee, the Gifte Shoppe, the folksy Festival, the neon sign on the pub, all must go! But local opposition runs high, death threats pile up, and Miss Emily's old friend Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives just in time to discover a drowned body and a set of murder motives that seem to spring eternal.

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