num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: Death of a Fool
titlecomplete: Death of a Fool (Roderick Alleyn, #19)
characters: Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Cozy Mystery, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2176
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: Minotaur Books