Night at the Vulcan

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Macmillan, 1998 M10 15 - 256 pages
A London actor was dying for a star billing...

From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead-there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening night. Was it really suicide? Or a macabre encore to a long-ago murder in the same backstage room? Scotland Yard's cast of suspects for the final curtain.

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THE VULCAN
11
IN A GLASS DARKLY
31
FIRST DRESS REHEARSAL
59
SECOND DRESS REHEARSAL
81
OPENING NIGHT
105
PERFORMANCE
125
DISASTER
144
AFTERPIECE
174
THE SHADOW OF OTTO BROD
201
SUMMING UP
224
LAST ACT
247
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From her first book in 1934 to her final volume just before her death in 1982, Ngaio Marsh 's work has remained legendary, and is often compared to that of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers. During her celebrated fifty-year career, Marsh was made a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, was named Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, won numerous prestigious awards, and penned 32 mystery novels. So sit back, draw the curtains, lock the doors, and put yourself in the hands of the Grande Dame of detective novels...

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