False Scent
224 pages
|Published: 1 Sep 1959
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ISBN: 9780312968984
Format: Mass market paperback
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Dead Letter
Publication date: 15 April 1999
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...