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Inspector Alvarez Series

37 primary works • 38 total works
Enrique Alvarez, a police inspector in Mallorca, Spain:

Book 1

Mistakenly in Mallorca
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3.68 · 93 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1974 · 6 editions
Brandy, Mallorca, and solving murders. Three of In…

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    Book 2

    Two-Faced Death
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    3.50     · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1976 · 12 editions
    Inspector Enrique Alvarez’s retirement is approach…

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    Book 3

    Troubled Deaths
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    3.88     · 25 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1978 · 7 editions
    “Mr. Jeffries has created a neat plot, inserted a…

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    Book 4

    MURDER BEGETS MURDER an utterly gripping crime mystery full of twists
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    3.92     · 26 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1979 · 6 editions
    ‘Roderic Jeffries established a very high reputati…

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    Book 5

    Just Desserts
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    3.69     · 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1980 · 6 editions
    Miriam Spiller was middle-aged, plain, and residen…

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    Book 6

    Unseemly End
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    3.13     · 23 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1982 · 6 editions
    Dolly Lund, widow of a scrap metal merchant, may h…

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    Book 7

    Deadly Petard
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    3.96     · 26 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1983 · 7 editions
    You can’t run away from murder…

    Detective Alvarez…

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    Book 8

    Three and One Make Five
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    3.53     · 15 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1984 · 6 editions
    Inspector Alvarez of the Majorcan police finds him…

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    Book 9

    Layers of Deceit
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    3.43     · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1985 · 8 editions
    The patient, brandy-drinking Inspector Alvarez mus…

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    Book 10

    Almost Murder
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    3.97     · 36 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 7 editions
    Alvarez investigates some facts that prove sticky …

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    Book 11

    Relatively Dangerous
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    3.58     · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1987 · 5 editions
    Inspector Alvarez's investigation into a seemingly…

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    Book 12

    Death Trick
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    3.56     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1988 · 6 editions
    The redoubtable Inspector Alvarez attempts to unra…

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    Book 13

    Dead Clever
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    3.38     · 8 Ratings · published 1989 · 6 editions
    Inspector Alvarez investigates an airplane crash n…

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    Book 14

    Too Clever by Half
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    3.80     · 15 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1992 · 9 editions
    Phillipa Burnette's refusal to believe that her br…

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    Book 15

    Murder's Long Memory
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    3.73     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1991 · 5 editions
    Inspector Enrique Alvarez is charged with finding …

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    Book 16

    A Fatal Fleece
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 3 editions
    Mallorca's Inspector Enrique Alvarez investigates …

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    Book 17

    Murder Confounded
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    3.14     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1993 · 5 editions
    The latest puzzle to rouse Enrique Alvarez's sleep…

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    Book 18

    Death Takes Time
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    3.38     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1994 · 10 editions
    Bridget Orr could have fallen accidentally to her …

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    Book 19

    An Arcadian Death
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    3.40     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 5 editions
    Inspector Enrique Alvarez confronts a baffling mys…

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    Book 20

    An Artistic Way to Go
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    3.00     · 21 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1997 · 10 editions
    Investigating the disappearance of Oliver Cooper, …

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    Book 21

    A Maze of Murders
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    3.33     · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 9 editions
    Inspector Alvarez investigates the drowning of a d…

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    Book 22

    An Enigmatic Disappearance
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    3.53     · 17 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1998 · 5 editions
    Inspector Alvarez likes the quiet life, away from …

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    Book 23

    The Ambiguity of Murder
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    3.94     · 18 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 9 editions
    When the body of retired Bolivian diplomat Guido Z…

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    Book 24

    Artful Death
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    3.33     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 6 editions
    Wealthy and rakish Keith Vickers has lived at Ca'a…

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    Book 25

    Definitely Deceased
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    3.78     · 18 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2001 · 2 editions
    Alvarez was reluctant to help Miguel Munar, suspec…

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    Book 26

    Seeing Is Deceiving
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    4.12     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 3 editions
    The honour of the Cuerpo is on the line as Inspect…

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    Book 27

    An Intriguing Murder
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    3.75     · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2003 · 4 editions
    For once, Alvarez is eager to get to work
    Scott Mui…

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    Book 28

    An Air of Murder
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    3.89     · 9 Ratings · published 2004 · 5 editions
    Stayforth House in England had been inherited by t…

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    Book 29

    A Sunny Disappearance
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    3.80     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 3 editions
    Life is hard, or so Alvarez judged before Maurice …

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    Book 30

    Murder Delayed
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    3.71     · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2006 · 3 editions
    It seems impossible: to find a man who stole half …

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    Book 31

    Murder Needs Imagination
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    3.56     · 18 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2007 · 5 editions
    A new case for Inspector Alvarez . . .Majorcan Ins…

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    Book 32

    An Instinctive Solution
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    3.77     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 2 editions
    The new Inspector Alvarez mystery - When Majorcan …

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    Book 33

    Sun, Sea and Murder
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    3.04     · 26 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2009 · 9 editions
    An Inspector Alvarez Mystery - Rich and arrogant, …

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    Book 34

    A Question of Motive
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    3.25     · 20 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 10 editions
    When there is nothing to choose between acciden…

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    Book 35

    Murder Majorcan Style
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    2.95     · 40 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 14 editions
    An Inspector Alvarez Mystery - Inspector Alvarez i…

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    Book 36

    Murdered by Nature
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    2.59     · 22 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions
    Optimism, as Inspector Alvarez knows, is the road …

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    Book 37

    In Search of Murder
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    2.91     · 22 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2014 · 12 editions
    Inspector Alvarez is rudely awakened from his afte…

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    Book 1-5

    Inspector Alvarez Mallorcan Murder Mysteries Books 1–5
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    4.31     · 52 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 1 edition
    In this 5-book box set:

    BOOK 1: MISTAKENLY IN MALLO…

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