False Scent (A Roderick Alleyn Mystery)

mass market paperback, 224 pages

English language

Published April 15, 1999 by St. Martin's Dead Letter.

ISBN:
978-0-312-96898-4
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OCLC Number:
41068468

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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...

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Subjects

  • Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
  • Mystery & Detective - Series
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
  • Mystery & Detective - General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Mystery/Suspense