When in Rome

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Death on a Guided TourIt was April in Rome and gathered together in the church of San Tommaso in Pallario was the kind of varied group of people that can only meet on a tour. It included a superannuated jetsetter and her junkie nephew a bad-tempered ultra-British major a boisterous Baron and Baroness and an extremely reticent best-selling author. They were there under the aegis of one Sebastian Mailer who had promised them a most unconventional toura claim no one later disputed after encountering murder blackmail and drug-running.Superintendent Roderick Alleyn in Rome on a special mission became involved in the case and found it one of his most bafflinga case in which every suspect might equally well prove a victim(Publishers description)