In a poisonous cloud of spray, the curtain falls on a drama queen.
Little did beloved British actress Mary Bellamy know that she would be done in at her own birthday party-choked by toxic mist from the bottle of "Slaypest," a deadly insecticide. Basking in the glow of her most adoring fans-who all happened to be her most duplicitous enemies-Mary would make her final performance. When Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives, he smells a rat amongst the contemptuous collection of theatre types detained at the party, for this case has the unmistakable scent of murder...
Book Details
Format
mass_market
ISBN-10
0515060070
ISBN-13
9780515060072
Publication Date
Nov 1981
Item Weight
0.28 pounds
Length
5.00 inch
Width
7.01 inch
Height
0.98 inch
First Sentence
WHEN SHE died it was as if all the love she had inspired in so many people suddenly blossomed.
Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of New Zealand’s most remarkable and charismatic women, was world-renowned as a leading crime fiction writer and as an eminent Shakespearian producer.
--ngaio-marsh.org
