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False Scent

Ngaio Marsh

1964224 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1964
first published
  • 1964Fontana Books · 258 pages · ENG
  • 1979Fontana · 254 pages · ENGISBN 9780006155904
  • 1987Collins · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780002442374
  • 1999St. Martin's Dead Letter · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780312968984
  • 1984Jove · ENGISBN 9780515080568
  • 2001HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · 256 pagesISBN 9780006512479
  • 2015Felony & Mayhem Press · 240 pagesISBN 9781631940194
  • 2001The Audio Partners · ENGISBN 9781572701649

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...

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AtmosphereNoir

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Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice
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