Overture to Death (The Alleyn Mysteries)

by NgaioMarsh (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $9.81

  Who in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was a spiteful gossip, gleefully destroying others' lives merely for her own excitement. But once Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives, he quickly realizes that the murderer might have killed the wrong woman -- and may soon stage a repeat performance.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.69

  A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which she more than lives up to her reputation as a crime writer of intelligence and style.

  It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift.

  But its execution was doomed when Miss Campanula sat down to play. A chord was struck, a shot rang out and Miss Campanula was dead.

  A case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn.