Percy Pursewarden commits suicide when he learns about his accidental complicity in Nessim Hosnani's plot, which is suppressed by the diplomat David Mountolive.
After agreeing to wear a ring belonging to a central character of this work, Toto Brunel is stabbed to death at a carnival with a hatpin. One section of this work is largely composed of the "Interlinear," notes written between the lines of the protagonist's manuscript. That protagonist reads Arnauti's novel Moeurs and attends a duck hunt at Lake Mareotis where Paul Capodistria is shot. In the last work in this series, the protagonist is forced to cut off his lover's hand when a harpoon accidentally fired by Balthazar pinned it underwater. Percy Pursewarden commits suicide when he learns about his accidental complicity in Nessim Hosnani's plot, which is suppressed by the diplomat David Mountolive. This work is framed as the memoirs of L.G. Darley and his remembrance of his lovers Justine and Clea. For 10 points, name this series of four Lawrence Durrell novels set in Egypt.
After agreeing to wear a ring belonging to a central character of this work, Toto Brunel is stabbed to death at a carnival with a hatpin.
The {Alexandria Quartet} [or Balthazar before “{duck hunt}”]