Death of a Fool

Death of a Fool

288 pages
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Published: 1 Jan 1957
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ISBN: 9780312968328

Format: Mass market paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Publication date: 15 February 1999

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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.