False Scent

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...

• Author
• Ngaio Marsh

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 224

• Series
• Roderick Alleyn

• Publisher
• St. Martin's Dead Letter

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-96898-4

• EAN
• 9780312968984

• Genres
• mystery, fiction, crime, detective, audiobook

• Release date
• 1999