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When actress Lucy Waring’s play folds inLondon and she finds herself at loose ends, she joins her sister Phyllida at the Villa Forli on the island of Corfu, expecting a quiet pre-Easter holiday of sun and swimming. Instead, she finds herselfin the middle of murder. The first indication that something is wrong occurs when she is swimming and someone starts shooting at the dolphin who comes in to play .Then Spiro, the son of Phyllida’shousekeeper, is lost at sea while working as photographer’s assistant to Godrey Manning, a nearby tenant. It also soon becomes evident that something is amiss at the Castello, where celebrated actor SirJulian Gale and his musician son Max are resident. Max aggressive lydis courages visitors and the gardener, Adoni, is employed to keep trespassers away, forcibly if necessary. When Lucy finds the bodyof a local smuggler among the rocks and catches Max Gale out in a lie concerning when he last saw him, Lucy is certain that Max is up to no good. What is Max doin, Lucywants to know? Why and how didthe smuggler die? What is wrong with Sir Julian Gale? Who shot at
the dolphin? Why hasn’t Spiro’s body been found? Lucy finds the answers to all these qu
estions whenthe dolphin is beached one...
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