False Scent

• Author(s): Ngaio Marsh,
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 0312968981
  ISBN_13: 9780312968984
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General , Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural ,

Description:... 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...