800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:"; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}The Death of Marco Styles is the first of the de Lacy Mysteries, featuring the sophisticated amateur sleuth using his formidable powers of deduction to beat the police at their own game…Marco Styles – rock star, raconteur, oldest swinger in town. Now married to the daughter of an old aristocratic family, he’s settled down to a sedate life in a country mansion.At one of the Styles’ famous dinner parties, Marco is the life and soul – right up until the men go off to drink their port. Marco takes a sip of the prized vintage, utters a few words … and drops dead.Did a life of excess just catch up with him? Or was something more sinister at play?Charles de Lacy, son of an old friend of Marco’s and a guest at the party, knows foul play when he sees it. But how to prove it? Especially when the chief detective hates you with a passion…