Death of a Fool (St. Martin's Dead Letter Mysteries)
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...
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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.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780312968328 (0312968329)
ASIN: 0312968329
Publish date: 1999-02-15
Publisher: St. Martin's Dead Letter
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Cozy Mystery,
Murder Mystery,
Fiction,
Historical
Hm. I know not what to think about Ngaio Marsh. According to SOME PEOPLE (aka the people who write blurbs for the back of Ngaio Marsh's books), Agatha Christie should be compared to her, rather than vice versa but that's a bit of a stretch. Because I love Agatha Christie, I've been desperately searc...
Interesting but not quite compelling. The issue of class rears its head in this book and (like many other occasions in Marsh) although her characters repeatedly talk about reverse snobbism and pretend that class doesn't matter, there is a distinct sense of Top Drawer about some characters, and a di...
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