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"Christine Clay, famous British film star, is strangled near her rented seashore cottage. Inspector Grant is called in from Scotland Yard to solve the case."@en
"On a clear, sunny morning on the southern coast of England, the body of famous screen actress Christine Clay is found lying limp on the beach. As Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant tries to determine whether it was an accidental death or murder, he finds too many clues, too many motives, and too many people who wanted the movie star dead."@en
"Early one summer morning, William Potticary's eye was caught by a flock of seagulls diving into the surf off the southern coast of England. A young woman's body lay limp on the beach--dyed hair, scarlet-tipped toes. The Coastguard called it "just a bathing fatality," but an article twisted in her hair screamed murder. For Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant it was a nightmarish case of too many clues and too many motives. For the woman was the screen actress Christine Clay. And the world was full of people who wanted her dead."@en
"A supposedly accidental drowning becomes something more deadly when Inspector Alan Grant finds a bizarre object tangled in the corpse's hair and later identifies the body as actress Christine Clay, a woman whom many people may have wanted dead."@en