Off With His Head
302 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1957
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ISBN: 9780006512455
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication date: 21 August 2000
Description
A ritual dance becomes a murderous mambo... At the winter solstice, South Mardian's swordsmen weave their blades in an ancient ritual dance. But for one of them, the excitement proves too heady, and his decapitation turns the fertility rite into a pageant of death. Now Inspector Roderick Alleyn must penetrate not only the mysteries of folklore, but the secrets and sins of an eccentric group who include a surly blacksmith, a domineering dowager, and a not-so-simple village idiot.