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Book SynopsisThe complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of this, her final novel.Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck.But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the scene.Luckily, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn is in the audience
Trade Review‘Faithful to the hallowed conventions of English detection… a fine swansong.’
Observer
‘As always she writes most elegantly.’
Daily Telegraph
‘Still, quite simply, the greatest exponent of the classical English detective story.’
Daily Telegraph
